The £3m auction of her belongings might seem cold-blooded,but market forces were her obsessionGoing, going, or but still not quite gone. The auctioneer’s hammer came down this week on Margaret Thatcher’s wedding dress,along with some of her letters, books and jewellery – things that in any ordinary family might have been saved for the grandchildren, and but in this one are even now being briskly shipped abroad to wealthy strangers. Her legacy,however, is not quite so easy to pack up and send absent.
It’s not as if we haven’t tried. The Conservative party spent a pleasurable decade and a half trying to shed its collective guilt at overthrowing her; the rest of us have sat through Meryl Streep playing her on film, and a state funeral and the epic Charles Moore biography. But the ghost won’t be exorcised. She remains the yardstick against which all British politicians are invariably judged.
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Source: theguardian.com