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Margaret Thatcher dies: as it happened

Margaret Thatcher died yesterday of a stroke at the age of 87. Here is all the latest reaction to the death of Britain's first female prime minister. 

 

 

Britain's longest-serving prime minister Margaret Thatcher has died of a stroke at the age of 87 
Margaret Thatcher dies at age 87
• Parliament recalled for special session
• Ceremonial funeral to be held next Wednesday
• The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will be attending her funeral
• David Cameron leads tributes to 'lion hearted' leader
How the papers reported the death
Margaret Thatcher Telegraph coverage in full
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16.30: That is all from our live for coverage for today, thank you for following. For the latest developments please visit the Telegraph's dedicated Margaret Thatcher page.
16.23: A large number of Labour MPs are expected to attend the Commons to pay tribute to Baroness Thatcher tomorrow, a senior party source said
George Galloway will not be taking part, claiming debate is "not allowed".
The Respect MP, who yesterday sparked anger by tweeting "Tramp the dirt down" after her death, said he would be "first in the queue" if debate was allowed.
But "the House of Commons authorities" would not allow debate in tomorrow's session, which has been called during Easter recess, Mr Galloway claimed.
Asked if he would be attending, he said: "I understand it is not a debate, so no. If it were a debate about the legacy of Margaret Thatcher I would be first in the queue for prayers. It is a state-organised eulogy."
Asked where he had heard that debate was prohibited, he said "from the horse's mouth in the House of Commons authorities", but refused to go into details.
"It is a series of tributes at public expense - vast public expense if everyone turns up," Mr Galloway said. "It is enough to make you sick.
"It is vast public expense for a bunch of fanatics on the Tory side and hypocrites on the Labour side who shed crocodile tears. At least half the country hated and despised her but you have to show 'respect'."
The Thatcher family
16.20: Martin McGuinness has called on people not to celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher after street parties were held in republican parts of Londonderry and West Belfast
Mr McGuinness, Sinn Fein's Deputy First Minister at the Northern Ireland Assembly, tweeted: "Resist celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher. She was not a peacemaker but it is a mistake to allow her death to poison our minds."
Unionists like DUP First Minister Peter Robinson have praised her commitment to the Union but Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams accused her of pursuing "draconian, militaristic" policies which prolonged the conflict.
Her uncompromising stance over the hunger strikes in the Maze/Long Kesh prison in 1981 defined her as a republican hate figure. She refused to back down on her policy of criminalisation of IRA inmates. A total of 10 prisoners starved themselves to death in an attempt to secure prisoner of war-type privileges.
16.13: An Irish cricketer has apologised after tweeting that he hoped Baroness Thatcher's death had been "slow and painful".
All-rounder John Mooney, who scored the winning runs in Ireland's historic win over England at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, has deleted the message.
Today he used his Twitter account to apologise, saying: "I would like to apologise to anyone that I upset with my tweets yesterday regarding the death of Margaret Thatcher.
"I realise now that they were offensive to many and have deleted them. I'd like to assure my family, friends, employers and... team mates that I have learned a very valuable lesson and in future will stick to focusing on my game!"
Cricket Ireland said Mooney had been instructed to delete the message by chief executive Warren Deutrom.
He described the comments as "crass, insensitive and offensive".
16.09: Stephen Brunt, a former miner and union representative, said that Lady Thatcher is still "reviled" in the mining town of Barnsley.
"She absolutely decimated mining communities with her policies and we will never ever forgive her," he said. "When I heard the news she had died, I shouted out 'rejoice."
16.05: When US president Ronald Reagan ordered the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup Margaret Thatcher was furious, colleagues remembered today.
Friends with her fellow conservative confidante since the mid-1970s, the Prime Minister was angry she had not been consulted and she summoned assistant secretary of state Richard Burt, who "just let her yell at us for a couple of hours," he recalled.
Mr Burt added: “When Margaret Thatcher got upset, people noticed in Washington.
"She had a credibility that nobody else in Europe had with people in the White House."
Lady Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, with Brian Mulroney, the Canadian prime minister, and Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, at a conference in Toronto in 1988 (Picture: AP)
15.50: Conservative MP Conor Burns has said that those who celebrate Lady Thatcher's death "pay tribute to her".

15.40: Falklands veterans, former cabinet minister Lord Tebbit, and UKIP leader Nigel Farage have all called for a statue to honour Baroness Thatcher, one of our "greatest" leaders.
A statue celebrating Baroness Thatcher should be placed on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square at the “heart of the nation” to acknowledge the fact she always had the country’s best interests at heart, said Commander John Muxworthy, a Lt Commander on the SS Canberra during the conflict.
13.57: Barnados charity shop has its window smashed during the "celebrations" of Baroness Thatcher's death in Brixton last night, leaving a gaping hole in the glass.
A spokesperson for the children's charity said: "The store has been forced to close, whilst the premises is made safe.
"We apologise to all our customers for the temporary closure and will ensure the store is re-opened as soon as possible. The incident has been referred to the Police and we are assisting them with their inquiries"
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that two women were arrested on suspicion of burglary in Brixton last night, although it is not yet clear if the two are connected.
13.23: Parliament is expected to be suspended for the funeral next Wednesday, meaning the first Prime Minister's Questions session since the Easter break could be cancelled.
12.35: Baroness Thatcher's death could propel The Wizard Of Oz track Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead into the top 40 of the singles chart after some have seen her death as a cause for celebration prompting a download surge for the track.
In the space of less than 12 hours Judy Garland's version had made it to number 54 according to the latest sales figures collated for the Official Charts Company. It is expected to climb higher as a result of a Facebook campaign being set up to encourage sales.
There has been some speculation that it may be too short to qualify at just 51 seconds, but chart bosses say it is eligible. In 2007 the track The Ladies Bras by Wisbey made the chart despite lasting just 36 seconds.
Garland's version is not the only one to be selling. A performance by Ella Fitzgerald is at 146 and one by the Munchkins is at 183. If sales of the three versions had been combined it would be selling strongly enough to be at number 40.
The Official Charts Company will release its midweek sales tomorrow to give an indication of whether it is continuing to sell and the top 40 itself will be announced on Sunday.
Garland's version is also at number 16 in the iTunes chart today.
12.30: Labour MP John Mann has questioned why taxpayers' money was being spent recalling Parliament tomorrow, when tributes could be paid after recess next week.
"I would have done it on Monday when Parliament reassembles," he said. "I do not know why we are wasting taxpayers' money on an additional session.
"It is perfectly valid that, when a prime minister dies, MPs can pay tribute, but this could be perfectly properly done on Monday."
Mr Mann said he would not be attending the session tomorrow, adding: "I will be at the dentist's."
12.23: In the Argentine press the obituaries described Baroness Thatcher as a war criminal and an imperialist.
Pro-government newspaper Página|12 ran the headline "Galtieri awaits her in hell" – in reference to the late military dictator who took Argentina to war. “The decision to sink the the General Belgrano was a war crime, made by the leader of an empire used to committing them,” wrote columnist Mario Wainfeld.
Crónica wrote of her death - "The Iron Lady, sunk". Mario Volpe, president of a veterans group, told the paper: "She won't be remembered as somebody who contributed to world peace. She had the opportunity to stop the war, but sank the Belgrano, outside the exclusion zone, to intensify the conflict.”
Argentina’s largest newspaper Clarín described her as "Thatcher, the imperial symbol of the Falklands War" claiming her legacy is as controversial as her government.
La Nación headlined their coverage: “Margaret Thatcher: She defined an era, left a wound.” The obituary said: “Everything would change on April 2, 1982 ... That was when the Iron Lady was born. Intransigence would become her political tool of choice.”
12.00: Buckingham Palace has confirmed that both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be in attendance at the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, which will be held next Wednesday.
It is a precedent as it is the first ceremonial funeral for a former British Prime Minister the Queen has ever attended. The last funeral of a British Prime Minister that she attended was that of Winston Churchill, who was given a state funeral.
No other members of the Royal family plan to go to the funeral.
Former Conservative party leaders Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath check their watches (Picture: REUTERS)
11.48: As more than 100 people gathered for a street party in Brixton to celebrate the death of Baroness Thatcher Buzzfeed asked people why they were attending. The response ranged from those gloating over her death to one man who admitted: "I'm always up for a dance."
A crowd gathered in Brixton outside the Ritzy Cinema to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher with one man climbing onto the roof to change the lettering of the film listings on the front
11.44: "I wouldn't be here without her" - Falkland Islanders have tribute to Margaret Thatcher as they react to the "very sad news" of her death.
11.30: Lord Moynihan remembers working as a Minister for Sport and for Energy in Baroness Thatcher's government and said that her death means "We have lost the finest Captain of Team GB".
He said: “Margaret Thatcher never faltered in showing commitment to her beliefs and in demonstrating an unfailing determination to get the job done. She rarely appointed young Ministers; so I was extremely fortunate to be asked by her to be Minister for Sport when I was just 31 and to be able to work so closely on the major issues of the day with the greatest leader I have known – the terrible human tragedy of Hillsborough, the first European Agreements on tackling doping in sport, the establishment of the British Paralympic Association, the building of a close relationship with the International Olympic Committee, the modernisation of British sport - all during an era when we had to face, tackle and seek to eradicate the scourge of football hooliganism at home and abroad.
"All these experiences – coupled with those gained when, subsequently, I was appointed as her Minister for Energy, such as leading the implementation of a new far-reaching safety regime for oil and gas operations in the North Sea following the Piper Alpha disaster - combined to establish the political building blocks of my life. Her example, leadership and guidance as a good friend and a great leader were second to none. We have lost the finest Captain of Team GB.”
11.15 Pope Francis has paid tribute to Baroness Thatcher. In a statement the Vatican said:

His Holiness Pope Francis was saddened to learn of the death of Baroness Margaret Thatcher. He recalls with appreciation the Christian values which underpinned her commitment to public service and to the promotion of freedom among the family of nations. Entrusting her soul to the mercy of God, and assuring her family and the British people of a remembrance in his prayers, the Holy Father invokes upon all whose lives she touched God's abundant blessings.
11.08: Prime Minister David Cameron has announced on Twitter that Baroness Thatcher's funeral will take place next Wednesday at St Paul's Cathedral. Both the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will be in attendance, Buckingham Palace have confirmed.
10.52 Former President George HW Bush writes in the Telegraph that Baroness Thatcher was a leader of rare courage.

Margaret was a fearless, unrelenting advocate for democracy, free markets and human rights. She was an independent but also reliable ally, whose counsel I sought and valued on so many of the great challenges we confronted together – from the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the liberation of Eastern Europe, to arms control, to the critical, early days leading to Desert Storm. Always and ever, I found her a wise friend for the United States, for myself, and for the universal cause of freedom that eternally binds our peoples.
Meanwhile, the US think tank Heritage Foundation has produced a video tribute to the woman who "refused to accept decay".

10.45: Downing Street have confirmed that the Government will be assisting with the arrangements for Baroness Thatcher's funeral, but said that all final decisions will lay with the executors of her will.
A date for the full military ceremony has not yet been set, and a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said that until final arrangements had been made they could not confirm whether or not the Queen would be in attendance.
War footing: In April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland islands. Mrs Thatcher sent British troops to retake the islands and Argentina surrendered in June 1982 (PA)
10.04 A Taiwanese television news station has apologised for airing footage of Queen Elizabeth II while reporting the death of Baroness Thatcher.
CTi Cable flashed a headline saying "Margaret Thatcher Dies of Stroke" and showed two clips of the Queen shaking hands with the public. The station apologised last night after viewers criticised it for failing to distinguish between the women.
News producers for Thailand's army-owned Channel 5 apologised for showing actress Meryl Streep's picture in a segment this morning. For nearly two minutes, it displayed Baroness Thatcher's biography alongside a picture of Streep in character for The Iron Lady.
09.55: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said that although she did not agree with many of her policies, Margaret Thatcher "changed history for women".
She said: “As a woman, I am admiring of her achievements becoming the first woman to lead the United Kingdom, the first female prime minister there. Many around the world will be reflecting upon her life and times today, as is appropriate with the loss of such a significant figure.
"For women around the world, they will be reflecting on the loss of a woman who showed a new way forward for women and a way into leadership."
09.51 Six police officers were injured when a scuffle broke out at a party in Bristol celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher.
Police were called to Chelsea Road in the Easton area of the city during the early hours of today where 200 people had gathered.
One officer remains in hospital and one person was arrested for violent disorder.
Chief Inspector Mark Jackson, of Avon and Somerset Police, said: "We were called to Chelsea Road, Easton at around 12.30am today.
"Around 200 people had gathered to have a street party and refused police requests to peacefully disperse.
"Bottles and cans were thrown at officers, six of whom suffered injuries. One remains in hospital.
"A police vehicle was damaged and one person was arrested for violent disorder. Some small bin fires were also started and the fire service also attended."
09.40 David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, has said he "cannot forgive" Thatcher for the impact of her policies on Sheffield.
She said she could not forgive the leadership of her own party for her downfall, and I have to say that I cannot forgive her for what she did to my city of Sheffield, the mass redundancies, the damage to productive industry and the use of incapacity benefit as a tool to avoid internal social breakdown. The debilitating impact of using North Sea Oil in this way remains with us today in the arguments around welfare benefits, although this is never recognised, her signing up to the Single European Market and inevitable compromises over our place in Europe left a continuing legacy of division.
In simple terms, we should remember her for what she was. A remarkable woman, a divisive figure but a politician who could mobilise both support and opposition in a way that fired British politics. I remember it well, as leader of the city of Sheffield for seven of those years, and the lessons that it taught me about understanding your opponents ideology, taking note of the resonance they have with the electorate and finding your own principled stance and set of values, to match and defeat those of your right wing opponents.
Derek Hatton, the Liverpool deputy leader and member of Trotskyite front Militant, says he will not be joining in the so-called "parties" to celebrate Thatcher's death but adds: "I do regret the fact she was ever born." He says she made the ailing British economy "ten times worse". He says high utility bills are a legacy of privatisation.
09.19 Margaret Thatcher scored a political own goal with her attitude to football, writes Henry Winter.
Thatcher’s era, the Eighties, was blighted by hooliganism but the Iron Lady seemed to have come to the opinion that all fans were feral and she was not for turning on that blinkered outlook. She saw criminals where they were simply civilians, many tragically victims.
Her pronouncements on football were delivered with great gravitas and little substance. Those of us who first started covering football in the mid-80s shuddered at how out of touch Thatcher was. She was influenced by the Luton Town Chairman David Evans, a Tory MP and proponent of identity cards for fans, an impractical scheme of questionable civil rights legitimacy.
09.12 Several West End shows have questioned whether to run aspects of the performance that are negative towards Margaret Thatcher after her death on Monday, Tim Walker reports.

The producers of Sir Elton John’s Billy Elliot, with its disgraceful song about “how we celebrate today, 'cause it’s one day closer to [Lady Thatcher’s] death”, took several hours to decide to go ahead with the production as planned.

Its dithering producers said they were considering excising the song, however.
In The Audience, Haydn Gwynne plays the revered former Conservative prime minister as a comic-book baddie who is accused by Dame Helen Mirren, as the Queen, of using words such as “coons” and being uncaring.
Peter Morgan, its writer, felt the need to address the audience “as a mark of respect” before Monday night’s performance in an apparent attempt to soften some of the cheap shots he takes at her in his script.
09.09 Our correspondent in South Africa Aislinn Laing writes of FW de Klerk's memories:
FW de Klerk, who described Baroness Thatcher as a "friend" in his tribute to her, describes in his autobiography how he and his wife took Mrs Thatcher and her husband Denis to the Mala Mala game reserve in what is now Mpumalanga, during one of their visits to South Africa.
On the last afternoon of the safari she had seen four of the Big Five game animals but no lions so she said "in her usual forthright manner 'Mr Game Warden, I came to Africa to see a lion. Please show me one', which he did."
08.50: Here is more from Ken Clarke, the current Minister without Portfolio who served in successive Thatcher Cabinets, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It was a privilege to work with her. I was with her all the way through. I first met her when I was a government whip and she was secretary of state for education and Ted Heath wanted to sack her.
“But years later I was always on her front bench in opposition and in government – then in Cabinet. We all had rows with her. I had a very robust relationship with her. She liked a political row. I remember her protesting that when she fell from power, that she liked debating politics – she did.”
The MP said that they had had some very “robust” arguments and it was a “very stirring to work for a conviction politician who was determined to make a difference.”
“I’m saddened obviously by the death but I’m almost amused by the way she still polarises debate – the right and the left have created myths about her government, they’re fighting them out even over her memory,” he said.
“She wasn’t a right-wing ideologue at all, she had lots of incurable old wets like me in the government – people like Ken Baker and Willy Whitelaw and Douglas Hurd and all these people. And she was pro-European, but she was a believer in market economics and when I started in politics, if you said as a Conservative you were in favour of free market economics, you were regarded as an extremist, and she did see that the country was on its knees when we took over – we were a laughing stock, an industrial, political laughing stock.
“And by the time she’d lost office, she’d transformed the country, given it back its self-confidence, given it a modern economy. It was a quite remarkable achievement. And I always said, as someone who served all the way through it and sort of clinging on to the sides, that it was great fun if you could stand the hassle because she kept this permanent sort of revolutionary air going inside the government. It was great fun.”
08.35: Baroness Thatcher was a sharply divisive figure, but more Britons thought she was good for the country than bad, a poll has revealed. After her death, half (50%) of the 965 adult respondents to a Guardian/ICM poll yesterday said they thought the former prime minister's contribution to Britain was a positive one.
Meanwhile, just over a third (34%) said she was bad for the country, the Guardian reported. A quarter (25%) of those polled thought she was "very good" whereas 20% of respondents thought she was "very bad". Just over one in 10 (11%) thought she was "neither good nor bad", while just 5% said they did not know.
But the polling data appeared to give support to those who criticised Lady Thatcher for creating regional divides in the Britain. More than half of English respondents (55%) think she was good for the country compared with just 23% of Scots and 34% of Welsh respondents.
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (62%) said she played an important role in "changing attitudes about the role in society that women can play". But just under a third (31%) said she did little to change gender relations because she "played by men's rules", according to the poll.
Whereas more women (64%) think Lady Thatcher changed societal attitudes than men, less than half (48%) of female respondents considered her overall record in power as a good one, compared with 52% of men.
A woman lays a flower infront of the wax statue of Margaret Thatcher at an exhibition centre in Shenzhen, China
08.25: Cynthia Crawford, personal assistant and lifelong friend of the former Prime Minister, has paid tribute to her "chum", revealing a much softer side to the woman know as the Iron Lady.
"It was the private face of Lady T that I knew best. I saw her humanity. I was with her when she wept privately for our soldiers killed in the Falklands. I knelt beside her when — careless of her own close brush with death — we prayed together at our bedsides for the bereaved on the night of the Brighton bomb," she wrote in the Daily Mail.
She described her as a woman who loved Vogue and Christmas and hated trouser, who was "great fun", and with whom she picked outfits for her many foriegn trips.
"I also wiped away a tear that had smudged her make-up as she exited Downing Street for the last time, unable to hide her distress at being driven from office," Mrs Crawford wrote.
Margaret Thatcher leaves Downing Street with tears in her eyes accompanied by Denis
08.15: MP Kenneth Clarke, who was Health Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government, said that he was amused by the many myths which had propagated about her time in office, and at some point someone would have to write a true history of her legacy.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that it was a “tribute” that she had changed the country more than any other peace time politician in his life time in what was a “remarkable achievement”.
“We had all lost our nerve. She gave us all the courage of our convictions,” he said.
Baroness Thatcher reads the order of service surrounded by empty seats as she waits for Queen Elizabeth to deliver her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords
08.10: News Internation CEO Rupert Murdoch has also paid tribute, tweeting: "Margaret Thatcher: symbol of liberty and strength. Changed Britain and the world for the better. May she rest in peace."
07.55: Financial TImes writer Niall Ferguson has said that his paper and many other publications owe Baroness Thatcher "not only the respect due to a great leader, but also an apology" because she was, after all, right to oppose the single European currency.
Mr Ferguson wrote that the former Prime Minister was right about "most things" - the trade unions had become too powerful, nationalised industries needed to be privatised, inflation has monetary causes, she was right about the Falklands, Iraq and the cold war and to oppose German reunification.
But above all, he said, she was right about Europe, tight to say "No! No! No!" to Delors plans for a federal Europe.
"Like many great leaders, Margaret Thatcher has come to be more respected abroad than she ever was at home. Left-leaning Brits who opposed her during the 1980s find it especially hard to admit that she was mostly right and they were wrong," Mr Ferguson said.
07.45: Anne Scargill, the ex-wife of Arthur Scargill who led the miners strike, told ITV's Daybreak that she was sad to see politicians praising a woman who had brought the country to its knees.
Discussing the news of her death she said: "I was really really happy because that woman caused us such distress and upset and here we were fighting for survival.... She weren't a woman, she was evil."
The death of Baroness Thatcher has dominated the news since it was announced yesterday lunch time
07.35: Columnist Polly Toynbee has used the memory of Thatcher to damn her successors. She writes that Baroness Thatcher "changed the heart of politics" more than any other politician since Clement Atlee.
Writing in the Guardian comment pages she said that every Prime Minister since has "bowed to her legacy", but says that Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne are "crude copies" who will never match the intelligence of the Iron Lady and believe all that is needed to run a country is conviction, something Baroness Thatcher was never short of.
"Seizing her chariot's reins to drive it on recklessly, they lack her brains, experience and political skill. Above all, they lack her competence at running the machinery of government," she said.
The left-wing commentator added: "Superlatives can be agreed: a remarkable first woman PM; the first winner of three elections in a row; brave; tough; relentless; clever; sleeplessly driven by a self-confident conviction that overawed her enemies. Every quality had its obverse, but she had a myth-making charisma to capture the world's imagination."
07.30: Today's cartoon by Adams after the death of Britain's first female Prime Minister

07.10: Chancellor George Osborne has said that whatever any politician tries to achieve and whatever battles they fight, they all “seem to shrink in size alongside the struggles and triumphs of Margaret Thatcher”.
Writing in the Times he said that her legacy has becom confused and the word “Thatcherite” has become so overused and misapplied that it does not truly represent her government anymore.
But her legacy, Mr Osborne claims, is optimism in tough economic times. He wrote: "She had optimism in the ingenuity and enterprise of the British people, when most had written them off. She had optimism that the fight for freedom against communist repression could be won, when most thought that was a dangerous fantasy. She had optimism that Britain’s best days lay ahead of it not behind it, when most pined for a mythical golden past.
"Margaret Thatcher was an optimist — and as Thatcher’s children mourn the death of the woman who defined our age, we too should be optimists about the triumph of the human spirit that she did so much to set free."
07.00: Former Chairman of the Conservative Party Liam Fox has paid tribute to Baroness Thatcher, claiming that she turned the party from a "loser into a world champion". Writing on the Conservative Home blog the MP said that her death means that we were "robbed of one of the great historic figures of our era".
Remembering her as a role model of his youth, the former Defence Secretary said that her "courage" as she was undermined and attacked from all corners cannot be understated.
He wrote: "She turned the Conservative Party from just another participant in the lowest common denominator politics of Britain in the 1970s into a world champion. It was not done without cost, socially or economically, although one of my favourite of her many mantras was that “it doesn’t matter how much people who will never vote for you don’t like it” as long as “you create a critical mass with those who believe what you believe to be right”.
"It was a privilege and an honour to know Margaret Thatcher. She would have been humbled by the tributes paid to her today, however richly deserved. She never wanted to be popular, but was always keen to be respected."
06:50: There were street parties held in Brixton and Glasgow last night to celebrate her death. In Brixton - the scene of fierce rioting in 1981 - hundreds gathered with placards and posters calling for people to "rejoice". In Glasgow around 300 people gathered for a celebration party organised on Twitter. They assembled in Glasgow's George Square where in 1989 protests to the introduction of the former prime minister's poll tax took place. The events been met with widespread condemnation.
06.45: Baroness Thatcher's body was moved out of the Ritz Hotel just after midnight this morning. Her body was taken out of the back entrance of the hotel, where she died peacfully yesterday morning, and transferred to a private ambulance and taken to an undisclosed location
The private ambulance leaves the rear of the Ritz Hotel, where former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been living
06.40: Here is a montage of all of today's newspaper front pages, with thanks to the BBC's Nick Sutton. Quite a mix.
Britain's front pages marking the death of Baroness Thatcher (Picture: @SUTTONNICK)
06.35: Here is the Telegraph's front page tribute to Baroness Thatcher today.
We start with the Telegraph's main news story from this morning's paper by Steven Swinford and James Kirkup. Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s greatest post-war prime minister, was a “lion-hearted” leader who served the British people “with all she had”, David Cameron has said. Lady Thatcher died at around 11am on Monday after suffering a severe stroke in her suite at the Ritz. She passed away peacefully aged 87, after battling poor health for more than a decade.
06.30: Good morning and welcome to the Telegraph's coverage of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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