I expect we will have a whole string of programmes looking back at Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister over the next week or so. Matthew Parris, on Radio 4’s Archive Hour, has a programme exploring what it was like to work for Lady T. For a political obsessive like me the programme will be fascinating.
I admit to being a fan. Without doubt she was a great PM. She changed the political whether. Her failing was to destroy forever the industrial base in Scotland and northern England, where to this day the Tories remain unpopular.
I lived in her constituency for many years. My parents still do. Thatcher was a faultless MP and a delight to meet, although she could be rather overbearing at times.
Thatcher and Atlee remain the two outstanding Prime Ministers of the post-war period.
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