[01:03.89]Alan Cummings of the Durham Miners’ Association said some mining communities never recovered.
[01:08.97]"A lot of people hated the woman, hated what she stood for, hated what she did to us.
[01:14.09]She has a legacy: a legacy of destruction, a legacy of destroying lives, a legacy of destroying communities.”
[01:20.22]Margaret Thatcher, known as the Iron Lady, did much to reassert British influence on the international stage.
[01:26.29]She had a close relationship with the then American President Ronald Reagan over the ending of the Cold War
[01:32.27]and helped convince his successor George Bush Sr to attack Iraq.
[01:36.20]Lady Thatcher herself seized back the Falkland Islands invaded by Argentina in 1982.
[01:41.98]She opposed apartheid, but stood against the imposition of Commonwealth sanctions against South Africa
[01:47.94]and she fiercely defended Britain’s position in the European Union.
[01:51.27]President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, who in 2005 became the first female president of an African country,
[01:58.17]said that Lady Thatcher inspired women to enter politics.
[02:01.27]"I think she was a role model because she came at a time when women participation and women leadership was in scarce supply.
[02:08.91]And so she had to, to take second decision.
[02:12.62]She had to act the role not so much as a woman, but she had to act as a leader.