Affirming Quote by Irvine Welsh

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

— Jim Broadbent

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

— Hilary Mantel

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along…

— Tom Stoppard

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and…

— Alexandra Roach

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors.…

— Brian Mulroney

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair…

— Martin Jacques

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly…

— George Michael

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

— Bob Hawke

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

— Liz Kendall

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside.…

— Simon Hoggart