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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Ruth Alexander.

Baroness Margaret Thatcher, who's died following a stroke, was Britain's first female

Prime Minister and one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century.

She was a pioneer of free market economics, helping to spread the ideas around the world.

But the Iron Lady was a divisive figure with passionate supporters and critics.

Both hold to strong beliefs about what she did.

But what does the data tell us about the many claims made about Mrs Thatcher?

And the Mounted Police are going in again.

At a full gallop right up the hill in the face of missiles.

The miners strike in 1984.

The battle between Mrs Thatcher and the miners defined her premiership.

To her supporters, she defeated the overpowerful unions.

To her critics, she destroyed whole swaths of British industry, like mining and manufacturing.

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