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Hello? your next obsession. Hello and welcome to this new series of legacy.

This time, Peter.

We're doing one of the great political figures of the 20th century, but one who has,

perhaps the most complicated legacy, but also divides opinion.

Tell us, Afwa, who we're going to be looking at today.

The first female elected leader of Britain, Margaret Thatcher.

She left a huge mark on British politics and on British society,

shaping the course of the nation for decades to come.

Her legacy is around us still today here in the middle of the 21st decades to come. Her legacy is around us still today,

here in the middle of the 21st century, where what she did, how she tried to reshape Britain,

has proved to be both divisive and toxic, but gathers a huge amount of support

amongst quite an important part of the population.

There's no question that her legacy is relevant.

And I think there's so much evidence of that, Peter,

from the way our political discourse often explicitly draws on her name and ideas.

But also, I think the image and iconography of her.

I mean, think about the films that have been made and the ways in which her clothes,

the pussy bows and the shoulder pads and the pearls, keep popping

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