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Welcome to Legacy and the fourth and final episode of our series on Margaret Thatcher.

When we left you in the last episode, Thatcher had just dodged an assassination attempt in Brighton.

She quashed the striking miners and she plowed on with a radical

privatisation agenda, selling off nationalised industries such as water, gas and British airways.

What we didn't talk about was the fact that she'd won a convincing victory at the general election

in 1987, another landslide for the Conservatives who won a 102-seat majority.

That's down a little bit on 1983 when she'd had the bounce after the Falkland War, but still

the public support for Thatcher was huge. That was carried through into the press where the Sun,

the most popular newspaper in Britain at the time, staanchly anti-Labour, had run a headline

before the election saying, why I'm backing Kinnock by Stalin. And Thatcher had campaigned on the

fact that the economy was improving, and although Labour had recovered a little bit, they didn't

pose any particular threat to Thatcher, Thatcherism or Conservative Party rule.

So even though Thatcher was the first Prime Minister in over 150 years to win three consecutive

elections, even though the electorate kept on choosing her, her popularity wasn't going to last.

Thank you. to last. from Wonderry and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frankopern.

I'm Afwa-Hush.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived

and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.

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