Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher breaks down in tears, during a 1991 interview with ITN, discussing her exit from ...

The PM previously said the image of the Tory doyenne was taken down because he does not like 'pictures of people staring down ...

Protect and Survive was a public information campaign in the United Kingdom about how to protect yourself during a nuclear ...

Margaret Thatcher IAIN DALE (SWIFT PRESS, 192 PP, £16.99) TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE £15.29 • TEL 020 7799 4064 It’s Margaret Thatcher’s centenary this year.

Instead, the issue became totemic and while she only saved £9m at the time – or £112m in today’s prices – it earned her the playground nickname “Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher”.

Two years later, Maggie Thatcher became PM. She was a Goddess at the Express and visited regularly. When she did the lift walls were covered in blue Perspex and Tory-blue carpets were laid.

Margaret Thatcher made it clear that she definitely didn't drink Perrier water but was partial to a weak whisky, as Jane Hardy discovered when she interviewed the 'Iron Lady' in Downing Street ...

Margaret Thatcher is "still adored and revered" by the Conservative Party, "grudgingly respected" by Labour prime ministers past and present, and "despised and reviled on the left and in many ...

Queen Elizabeth was "the only person in the world of whom Margaret Thatcher was frightened", and the Tory ex-Prime Minister required a stiff drink before meeting her, according to Julian Haviland ...

Julian Haviland, the former political editor of The Times, told how Mrs Thatcher would drink a large scotch or two before her weekly audience with Her Majesty to settle her nerves.