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| Reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher: as it happened |
| London, 09.04.2013 |
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| Margaret Thatcher has died of a stroke at the age of 87. Here is all the reaction to the news of the death of Britain's first female prime minister.
By Barney Henderson and Chris Irvine
11:00PM BST 08 Apr 2013
• Margaret Thatcher dies at age 87
• Parliament recalled for special session on Wednesday
• Downing Street announces ceremonial funeral
• Sir John Major describes 'force of nature'
• David Cameron pays tribute to 'great leader and great Briton'
• Queen saddened by death of Baroness Thatcher
• Former PM had been suffering bad health
• Margaret Thatcher Telegraph coverage in full
• Email your tributes to thatchermemories@telegraph.co.uk
Latest
23.00 We are going to wrap up our rolling coverage of reaction to Baroness Thatcher's death for the night. For the latest developments visit the Telegraph's dedicated Margaret Thatcher page.
22.45 And here, thanks to the BBC's Nick Sutton, are all of tomorrow's front pages, with their own takes on the life and death of Baroness Thatcher.
22.30 Here is the Telegraph's front page tribute to Baroness Thatcher tomorrow.
22.00 Charles Moore, Baroness Thatcher's authorised biographer, analyses her personal strengths – and her weaknesses.
Peter Oborne says with her death, Margaret Thatcher joins the ranks of the immortals.
The reason is simple. Most prime ministers allow themselves to be shaped by the times in which they live. Just a very few – and she was emphatically one of these – refuse to conform.
They have the daring to shape the world. Pitt intuitively discerned the emerging empire, Gladstone brought a profound moral sense to British government, Disraeli created the modern Conservative Party, Lloyd George saved the nation in the First World War.
Churchill – the greatest of them all – rallied the British nation, and then the entire world, against Hitler.
The magnificence of Thatcher was her adamantine refusal to accept the conventional wisdom of her age. When she became premier in 1979, almost everybody who mattered accepted it as fact that Britain was finished. Almost everyone believed that the unions – the new feudal barons – were in control, and there was nothing to be done about it.
As a result, it was taken for granted that British industry could not compete, and that Britain no longer had a serious role to play on the world stage.
And then along came this extraordinary woman. She burned with passion, certainty and belief. She could not comprehend the meaning of defeat. She felt passionately proud to be British. It was this pride which enabled her to change not just Britain, but eventually the world.
Tomorrow's Telegraph View says that the Iron Lady would have been a "giant in any age".
We should be grateful, however, that her talents were so peculiarly suited to the desperate situation in which this country found itself – and rue the fact that in our current straits, we have no one to match her. She may have divided opinion, and occasionally even outraged it, but she lifted this nation from decline and despair, and restored it to success, influence and prosperity. It is hard, as we said earlier, to appreciate the scale of her achievements, and to acknowledge the depth of our debt to her. But what can certainly be said is that, if she had never been prime minister, or even if the IRA had succeeded in its grisly work in Brighton in 1984, this country would undoubtedly be the poorer, and the ambit of the free world smaller. If Britain is still Great, it is because of this greatest of Britons.
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