We meet Margaret Thatcher (played by Meryl Streep) when she is aged and reminiscing. At this stage, she still has an intermittent public role where she attends formal functions from time to time, but her days of high level politics and media exposure are long behind her. A memoir has recently been published and Margaret is living in a world dominated by her memories. The key points of her life are depicted in snippets through her own reflections. We learn about her schoolgirl days, the influence of her grocer father, her early days in politics, life with her husband Denis (by Jim Broadbent), early family life with her two children and her gradual rise to leadership of the British Conservative (Tory) Party with eventual role as British Prime Minister. She is portrayed as a woman focussed on her job and the politics of the time – the family are almost a distraction for her.
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