Margaret Thatcher was one of the defining figures in British politics
She was the last real Conservative with a spine
She was arguably the most important and transformational figure in the Western world
Lady Thatcher was a towering figure in British, and indeed, world politics
She was rushing around shaking hands with everybody, chatting to people
She was a Tory and it was just a politician visiting
She was at the Cutlers
Thatcher was built for confrontation
Margaret Thatcher was built for confrontation
She was an instant wicked Queen
Mrs Thatcher was a powerful politician
She was a wicked woman
She was a world leader and will be missed
Thatcher was a great leader for one simple reason — she lead
She was the first female prime minister
She was also the greatest peacetime prime minister we ever had
She was determined that should not happen
Lady Thatcher was, like Dickens, the property of far more than just her family
Lady Thatcher was seen by many as a kind of modern day Genghis Khan
Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest political leaders in history
She was not, of course, perfect
Margaret Thatcher was losing her vice–like grip on world affairs
Lady Thatcher was having difficulties with her hearing
She was still functioning
She was on ever stronger medication
She was word perfect
She was admitted to hospital for tests
She was dressed immaculately
She was struggling to speak because she found it difficult to form words
She was the shopkeeper's daughter from Grantham
She was the patriot prime minister
Margaret was such a leader
She was kind and generous spirited
Thatcher was an unmitigated disaster for Britain
She was the one who truly 'broke the mould' of British politics
Mrs Thatcher was one hell of a PM to cover as a journalist
She was a great politician and an exceptional person
She was a great person who did a great deal for the world
She was simply one of the greatest politicians of our time
She was part of the decision making process
Mrs Thatcher was even said to have jokingly sent the Queen a pair of rubber gloves
She was Secretary of State for Education in Ted Heath's cabinet
Margaret Thatcher was upset
Mrs Thatcher was initially a lonely figure over the Falklands
She was well aware that I had been one of her most ardent supporters
She was virtually unembarrassable
Margaret Thatcher was no admirer of the foreign office as an institution
She was an indefatigable traveller
Margaret Thatcher was unique
She was always talking about her principles
She was deeply aware that, while she had escaped, many of her friends had died
She was at first no match for Harold Wilson
She was not always as good a judge of men's characters as of their abilities
Margaret Thatcher was generally thoughtful of those working for her
Margaret Thatcher was decisive
Margaret was attached to legal chambers in Lincoln's Inn
Mrs Thatcher was adopted as the Conservative candidate for Finchley
She was certainly a caring and loving mother
Mrs Thatcher was not complicit in her son's business arrangements
She was the boss
Mrs Thatcher was wading through the carnage wrought by terrorists
She was always Mrs T
She was simply 'PM' to me
Mrs T was due to meet the Gorbachevs in Moscow
Lady T was emphatically anti-trousers
She was dressed and made up immaculately
She was adept with her make-up
She was convulsed with giggles one day
She was inconsolable when Airey Neave and Ian Gow were killed
She was distraught when her son Mark went missing for six days
She was resolute in her determination not to be cowed by the outrage
She was determined to address the party conference
Lady Thatcher was a remarkable lady
She was a great friend
She was always feminine
She was a lady
Thatcher was not entirely alone when she entered Parliament
She was unique in being a mother of six year old twins
She was not only as good as the man standing next to her but better
Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister
Mrs Thatcher was able to proceed with strategy of restructuring the economy
Margaret Thatcher was still five weeks away from being Prime Minister
She was devastated
She was unbowed
She was Britain's greatest peace time Prime Minister
Thatcher was returned to power with a majority of 144
Thatcher was perhaps the most intensely serious person to ever occupy her office
She was incapable of treating politics as a game
She was single-mindedly dedicated to using power to change Britain
She was perceived as handsome rather than alluring
She was asserting it the whole time
She was inexhaustible
She was especially feted by President Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister
She was an exhausted volcano
She was one of the most divisive Prime Ministers of modern times
Mrs Thatcher was monstered over an interview
Mrs Thatcher was also criticising the automatic tendency of people to look to the state as a cure for all ills
She was of the firm conviction that society was the sum of its parts
Margaret Thatcher was the other
She was repeatedly obliged to face down prejudice against wisdom
She was even hated by large sections of her own Conservative Party
Thatcher was so widely despised because she spoke out on behalf of the ordinary
She was always the outsider
Margaret was their second child
Margaret was brought up over the shop
She was part of a team that invented a revolutionary method of preserving ice–cream
She was turned down
She was headstrong, obstinate and dangerously opinionated
She was the youngest woman Conservative candidate there had ever been
She was reassured to discover he was a no–nonsense Conservative
She was obliged to miss out on fighting the 1955 election
Margaret Thatcher was no feminist
Margaret Thatcher was already beginning to align herself with the Right–wing
She was promoted to housing spokesman
Mrs Thatcher was not just a reflex Right–winger
She was one of the very few Conservative MPs who supported reforming legislation of homosexuality and abortion
She was to look back on her time at education with mixed feelings
She was labelled 'Mrs Thatcher Milk Snatcher'
She was out of sympathy with the government she served
Margaret Thatcher was never part of Edward Heath's inner cabal
Margaret Thatcher was obliged to confront the second great challenge of her premiership
Mrs Thatcher was all too well aware that union power had destroyed Edward Heath's government
She was not secure politically either
Margaret Thatcher was never ready to follow tamely in the wake of a US President
She was always ready to stand up for British interests
She was badly weakened
She was awarded a life peerage to add to the Order of Merit
Baroness Thatcher was appointed Lady of the Garter
She was a strong supporter of the Royal Chelsea Hospital
Margaret Thatcher was a woman of the most extraordinary courage
She was Britain's greatest ever peacetime Prime Minister
She was the greatest
Margaret Thatcher was surely our greatest peacetime Prime Minister
She was a veritable force of nature
She was responsible for dismantling the consensus
She was a great example of a strong leader
Thatcher was not courting popularity
She was 87
Mrs Thatcher was the first woman to become Prime Minister of Britain
She was honoured as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
She was 'la pasionaria of privilege'
She was rarely willing to concede a point
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on Oct 13 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire
She was elected to be a Conservative Party candidate for Parliament
She was admitted to the bar and came to specialise in patent and tax law
She was forced to give way
She was too reticent on cutting taxes
She was wary of insouciance over rising Federal deficits
Mrs Thatcher was also against it
She was the patriot Prime Minister
Lady Thatcher was the only British Prime Minister to leave behind a set of ideas about the state
Mrs Thatcher was a great leader
She was known for her close working alliance with Ronald Reagan
She was equally a hate figure for others
She was one of two great Prime Ministers
Lady Thatcher was one
Mrs thatcher was not a natural orator
She was excoriating in her scorn of Mr Kinnock
She was very much the finished article
Mrs Thatcher was appointed Secretary of State for Education
Mrs Thatcher was very good at extracting generous budget settlements from the Treasury
She was reluctant ever to lose an argument
She was always determined to win arguments
She was losing the main point at issue
She was almost totally impervious to how she offended other people
She was outraged
She was correct
She was an example of the prophet without honour
She was a woman who cared
She was too ill
She was an occasional visitor
She was finding it difficult to move
She was a little more fragile than usual
She was not alert
Baroness Thatcher was Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister
She was and is an inspiration
She was a force to be defined against
Margaret Thatcher was such a leader
Lady thatcher was difficult sometimes, not always smooth
Margaret Thatcher was a great politician
She was a groundbreaking politician
She was fundamentally wrong
She was a witch
She was someone's parent or grandparent
She was milk–snatcher, a poll tax–snatcher, a coal–snatcher
She was also regarded as less than a heroine by Unionist representatives
She was great
She was a politician
Baroness Thatcher was determined to preside over an increase in home owners
She was moved to write in her autobiography
She was responsible for many of the reforms now being built upon
Baroness Thatcher was no great believer in local democracy
She was a woman who knew that a leader needed to have strong convictions
Margaret Thatcher was not a politician for women
She was a great politician and exceptional person
Thatcher was someone who only deepened the world's differences
She was very happy to restore freedom to the people of the Falklands
She was a very powerful lady
Lady Thatcher was a divisive figure
She was able to play a positive role in our own process of non-racial constitutional reform
She was a voice of reason during apartheid
She was both a trailblazer and soundboard
She was on the same wavelength as Mr Reagan
Mrs Thatcher was ambivalent about the idea
She was the hard, unfeeling wicked witch of selfishness
She was Britain's first woman Prime Minister
She was a member of the lower middle class
Margaret Thatcher was a conservative who promoted accelerated change
She was for a traditional view of life
She was doing it for the girls
she was still propping herself up on the same gender-stereotypical aphorisms
Lady Thatcher was not bothered
