FILE -- This is a Aug. 29, 2009 file photo of Siv Jensen, leader of Norwegian Progress Party. Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher. Polls leading up to Monday's national election in this oil-rich Nordic state of 4.8 million people show the leader of the right-wing Progress Party may have a shot at pursuing her dream of applying a free market overhaul to a society often called a socialist paradise. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

FILE -- This is a Aug. 29, 2009 file photo of Siv Jensen, leader of Norwegian Progress Party. Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: she wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher. Polls leading up to Monday's national election in this oil-rich Nordic state of 4.8 million people show the leader of the right-wing Progress Party may have a shot at pursuing her dream of applying a free market overhaul to a society often called a socialist paradise.

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  1. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher sits in the Lords chamber for the Queens speech at the annual State opening of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords. This new session of Parliament will only last until the general election which has to be called by June 3, 2010.
  2. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher during the State Opening Of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords. This new session of Parliament will only last until the general election which has to be called by June 3, 2010.
  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher during the State Opening Of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords. This new session of Parliament will only last until the general election which has to be called by June 3, 2010.
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Former British Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher is helped to her seat by an usher during the State Opening Of Parliament on November 18, 2009 in London, England. Queen Elizabeth II unveiled the Government's legislative programme in a speech delivered from the Throne in The House of Lords. This new session of Parliament will only last until the general election which has to be called by June 3, 2010.
  5. LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 08: Baroness Thatcher (right) attends the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph on Whitehall November 8, 2009 in London, England.
  6. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: Framed portraits of former Conservative Prime Ministers (L-R) Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher and Alec Douglas-Home are displayed on The Carlton Club trade stand in the exhibition hall during the Conservative Party Conference at the Midland Hotel on October 5, 2009 in Manchester, England. Britain's Conservatives are meeting in Manchester this week for their final party conference before next year's general election.
  7. A notice on a window of a £12million house, which has been taken over by squatters and is on the same square as former British Prime Minister Lady Thatcher, is pictured in central London, on September 30, 2009. The occupants have put a notice on the window advising that they occupy the property and intend to stay. They have also allegedly invited Baroness Thatcher for tea.
  8. A notice on a window of a £12million house, which has been taken over by squatters and is on the same square as former British Prime Minister Lady Thatcher, is pictured in central London, on September 30, 2009. The occupants have put a notice on the window advising that they occupy the property and intend to stay. They have also allegedly invited Baroness Thatcher for tea.

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