John Major is the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as Margaret Thatcher steps down.
It has been a day of change and new beginnings for the occupants of number ten and number eleven Downing Street London.
Following a challenge within the Conservative party to her leadership, Margaret Thatcher resigned. The first women Prime Minister in British history stood down after eleven years at the helm.
Departing for her last formal audience with Queen Elizabeth II Margaret Thatcher was clearly moved by the occasion,
We're leaving Downing Street for the last time, after ten and a half wonderful years.
The meeting between the monarch and Mrs Thatcher in Buckingham Palace lasted for three quarters of an hour, and then then official cars brought the Thatchers to their new home in the south London neighbourhood of Dulwich.
Next in line to meet the Queen was the incoming Prime Minister, John Major, the youngest British Premier this century.
Standing on the steps of Number Ten to address the media, John Major promises the dawning of a new era, forecasting a decade of opportunities for the United Kingdom.
We have seen in the last few years the remarkable ending of the Cold War, and the bringing together of nations in a fashion that no-one would have imagined just a few years ago. We have in front of us the building and development of an entirely new Europe.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 28 November 1990. The reporter is Mícheál Ó hUanacháin.
