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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Andrew MacAskill

The most coveted endorsement in race to be next British prime minister? Margaret Thatcher

FILE PHOTO: A statue of the former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, is seen in Grantham, Britain, May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Carl Recine/File Photo

Margaret Thatcher has not been in power since 1990. In fact, she's been dead since 2013. But the former Conservative prime minister has been a regular presence in this week's contest to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's next leader.

Thatcher, the most polarising prime minister in modern British history, was reviled and revered in equal measure as she crushed the unions and privatised large swathes of industry.

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