Country Quote by Jonathan Coe

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.

— Stuart Hall

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

— Harold Wilson

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to…

— Abi Morgan

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

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

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

— Jonathan Coe

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

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial nostalgia with…

— Shashi Tharoor

Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't…

— Stephen Hough