No love lost: Thatcher reviled in the north of England also in death
Britain’s former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this week in a lavish ceremony in London. During her three terms as Britain’s first female prime minister Lady Thatcher introduced wide-ranging reforms which saw the rise of the City of London as a global financial centre, but also the closure of countless coal mines and much of the country’s manufacturing industry. It has divided the British people’s opinion of her – even after her death. On the day of her funeral, I went to the former mining town of Chesterfield in the north-east of England, from where I sent this report for Deutsche Welle and Inside Europe: