Broadcaster Iain Dale’s new book on the UK’s first female prime minister offers an intelligent, nuanced take on a woman who has too often been reduced to a caricature
State visit: Margaret Thatcher waves to onlookers in Moscow. Her nickname of the Iron Lady was coined by Russian media. Photo: Derek Hudson/Getty Images
Social media wasn’t around in the 1980s. That was probably for the best.
People think politics is toxic now, but Margaret Thatcher divided opinion back then every bit as violently as President Trump does today.