Conservative Friends of India is sad to learn of the death of former Prime Minister, the Baroness Thatcher. Commenting on behalf of CF India its co-Chairmen, Shailesh Vara MP and Ranjit Baxi, said:
“Baroness Thatcher will go down in history as one of the greatest ever British Prime Ministers. It is no exaggeration to say that she saved the country from terminal economic decline and, in doing so, helped us rediscover a pride in our nation. Her refusal to bow down to Argentine aggression and her staunch, absolute and ultimately successful rejection of communism rightly earned her the sobriquet ‘the Iron Lady.’
“However, there was much more to Baroness Thatcher than her policy successes and outward resilience. The grammar school educated daughter of a grocer; a wife and a mother; a successful food scientist; a women taking on and reaching the top in the then man’s world of politics - she epitomised the heights that could be reached through hard work and talent. That legacy, the desire to allow people get on and achieve their potential, lives on in today’s Conservative Party.
“Margaret Thatcher will be greatly missed and CF India’s thoughts and prayers are with her family.”