Accepting Quote by Ken Loach

“Some in Westminster have talked about her receiving a state funeral when she dies, which seems a bizarre sort of tribute to someone who…

— John O'Farrell

The government are considering spending £3million on a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher when she dies. For £3million they could buy everyone in Scotland…

— Frankie Boyle

“I never swallowed in its entirety the free-market rhetoric of the Thatcherites. But I deeply sympathized with Thatcher’s motives. She wanted the electorate to…

— Roger Scruton

“Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I…

— Christopher Brookmyre

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

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where…

— Anthony Holden

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

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

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 believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

— Tony Blair

“Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal to listen…

— Morrisey

Thatcher projected power in what she said and did.

— Cathy Newman