Hollywood portrays life of the 'Iron Lady'

Twenty-one years after Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, bowed out of politics in the UK, her life is being portrayed in a Hollywood film.

Thatcher's policies polarised the country, as she took on the country's trade unions, cut social benefits and fought a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

In the film, The Iron Lady, the name Thatcher was often known by, the former leader is played by the Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep.

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports from London.

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[kitabwalli]

I appreciate Mrs. Thatcher - she showed that women can be just as evil as men.

[hoosierhiver]

Cool another vampire movie

[kitabwalli]

Warjunkie is an idiot who assumed I'm a Muslim. The fool is wrong - I'm a Celt who does not support the idiots war machine.

[44warjunkie]

@kitabwalli well, coming from a Muslim, i'm not surprised you think most Western leaders are evil.

[FadeToBlack888]

@usergently maybe she will be re-incarnated as a Newt or a Krill?

[usergently]

@FadeToBlack888 Sadly mine is dead. But she probably kick you in the groin for been an idiotic, racist cunt!. Voilà! Asstrou!.

[FadeToBlack888]

@usergently my mum probably does as shes a married woman, your mother probably sucks frog

[usergently]

@FadeToBlack888 For a pathetic troll who hasn't got anything on his faux channel...I don't give a fuck. Tell your mom she sucks dicks badly. Looser!

[FadeToBlack888]

@usergently fucking smelly frogs

[usergently]

@FadeToBlack888 Go suck an egg looser!

[FadeToBlack888]

@contacter funny because i say literally the same thing about socialism, and i study economics at LSE... before that i grew up in an anti-thatcher, working class household.

[contacter]

@FadeToBlack888 Wow u have such a command of english, especially its more colorful words.  I repeat history will not be kind to her or her succesorts. conservatism is not so much an ideology as a mental disorder.