Alliance Quote by Gavin Williamson

I hate to say it because I voted against everything Thatcher did, but she had principles she believed in.

— Dennis Skinner

Just as strong Labour supporters in the 1980s could not come to terms with the fact that most people did not hate Mrs Thatcher,…

— Damian Green

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped…

— Martin Parr

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

— Jonathan Coe

I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century.…

— Tony Benn

Of course Margaret Thatcher was a remarkable and strong-willed figure but she was also a pragmatist, just as ready to upset her right wing…

— Nick Boles

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

— Liz Truss

From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher's style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles…

— Jon Weisman

The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities…

— Tony Benn

Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration,…

— Priti Patel

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

— Julian Critchley