To many people in the U.K. Margaret Thatcher was not a great leader, she was a very devisive figure, history has tended to paint her premiership with rose coloured spectacles, but in reality her time as PM was very controversial and fraught with recession, social inequality, and social fragmentation in the U.K. so the premise of the question is loaded. read more
Margaret Thatcher is the first and only woman to become British prime minister. read more
So, when Margaret Thatcher, a relatively young woman and mother from a working class background began some radical reforms to the very fabric of what many thought made Britain great it was no surprise that she divided opinions and many hated everything she stood for. read more