Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Margaret Thatcher

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In the latest episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and author Andrew Roberts nominates Margaret Thatcher, who combined ideological drive with steely determination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	I'm Ellie Gawthorthorne. Today, we've got the latest episode in our series on Britain's
1:00.7	greatest prime ministers. Hello and welcome to our new series profiling some of Britain's
1:06.1	most important prime ministers. I'm Matt Elton, Deputy Editor of BBC History magazine. It's 300 years since Robert
1:14.1	Walpole became Britain's first Prime Minister. To mark this seismic moment in the nation's political
1:19.5	history, we asked a series of leading historians to each nominate the two leaders that they believe
1:25.3	achieved most during their time in number 10.
1:28.6	Today we'll be hearing from historian and author Andrew Roberts,
1:31.6	whose second nomination is Britain's first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
1:36.4	Margaret Thatcher is one of those hugely polarising figures who I suspect no one hasn't heard of.
1:41.7	But just in case, can you walk us through the period she was in power?
1:46.7	And I suppose some of the headline things about her as leader.
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