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…Thatcher was a prime minister who denounced Nelson Mandela as a terrorist, defended the Chilean fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet, ratcheted up the cold war, and unleashed militarised police on trade unionists and black communities alike.
She was Britain’s first woman prime minister, but her policies hit women hardest, like Cameron’s today.
She was the most socially destructive prime minister of modern times.
Seumas Milne, the Guardian