Starmer winds up Tories by removing Thatcher portrait from Downing Street

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Starmer winds up Tories by removing Thatcher portrait from Downing Street
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Starmer's biographer said the Prime Minister found the painting of the former Tory leader 'unsettling'.

Keir Starmer has wound up the Tories by having a photo of Margaret Thatcher removed from Downing Street, according to reports.

Thatcher was British Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990. Her time in office saw the shutting down of many industries with thousands of Scots left unemployed because of her policies. Russell Findlay said: “Gordon Brown commissioned this portrait after calling the first female Prime Minister ‘a conviction politician who saw the need for change’.

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