Britain's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher (left), is described as a 'contemporary villain' in a current display on British humour through the ages.
A puppet of Baroness Thatcher from Spitting Image is also in the exhibitionThe Victoria and Albert Museum was facing calls last night for it to be stripped of its public funding after naming Margaret Thatcher in a list of 'unpopular public figures' alongside Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
A puppet of Baroness Thatcher from the satirical television show Spitting Image is also included in the comedy exhibition at the London museum whose director is former Labour MP Tristram Hunt. According to 2022-2023 figures, the museum received most of its income, more than £67million, from the taxpayer via the Department of Culture.
Advertisement Last night the V&A was branded 'disgraceful' and 'moronic' amid calls for ministers to axe its financial backing. Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Baroness Thatcher and director of The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, also commented. Political commentator and businessman Russell Quirk told GB News: 'Thatcher was the mother of entrepreneurship. How anyone can say she was a villain – she was one of political history's heroes.
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