Thatcher says Labor won by adopting her policies

Margaret Thatcher says one of the real problems with Great Britain's last election was that she converted her opponents.

The former British prime minister said the Labor Party won two weeks ago partly by adopting policies of the Conservative Party she led to power in 1979, including privatization and lower taxes."We'll have to watch and make sure it's not just a conversion of convenience but a conversion of reality," she told 1,000 people during an address Monday to two British-American business groups in Orlando, Fla.

Thatcher also repeated her stance against the European Union, a position that led to her resignation from office in 1990.

"You can't make a people out of 14 different languages, 14 different histories," she said.