Teresa O'Neill - a stalwart of Conservative London moves on

Teresa O'Neill - a stalwart of Conservative London moves on

Teresa O’Neill, who is about to step down as leader of Bexley Council after 17 years in the job, was just too young to vote in the general election of 1979, the one that ushered Margaret Thatcher into Number 10. But not too young to be a fan. Partly, that was because Britain’s first female Prime Minister was a role model, someone who, by her very ascent to the highest office, signalled, as O’Neill puts it when we meet at Bexley’s Civic Offices, …