Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG OM PC FRS (née Roberts, 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013), was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. Originally a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election. (read more on wikipedia)

Links To Peel
Peel was not a fan of Thatcher and in many shows, where polls showed he had equal popularity with Thatcher, he almost took it as an offence to share the same platform with her. Peel was a Labour Party supporter, but that didn't stop him inviting Margaret Thatcher to do a session on his show after hearing her recording of Ode To Democracy by the London Symphony Orchestra in 1992. Not surprisingly she refused to do it. On many of his shows, Peel would often play anti-thatcher songs on his show. One of them even reached number 12 on the 2000 Festive Fifty by Hefner called The Day That Thatcher Dies.