history as the most important peace time prime minister in modern times. she did have a very strong view that was not for the trade unions to dominate the uk economy. when she was elected prime minister we had had the winter of discontent, we had called in the imf, we were essentially bankrupt and she felt that the united kingdom was headed in the wrong direction and she did some very, very tough things, she took on the miners, she took on union, but she also did other things, she spread for example, the appeal of capitalism. across british society in a way that had never happened before. she gave more people a direct stake in the economy in a kind of capitalist way. and that may have had a lasting impact as well. she was a reformer, a transformer, she was very tough, but she knew what she was trying to do. >> how remarkable was it that she was a grocer's daughter, a woman, not in the -- she wam from a different class system. from a culture, a political culture that was class-driven.