Thatcher would never have backed sanctions against delinquent China
On the whole, we do not ban countries simply because their regimes don’t share the same liberal values as our own
15 December 2020 • 7:00pm
Whatever you might otherwise think of the new series of the Crown, there is one rather good episode concerning Margaret Thatcher’s standoff with the Queen over attempts by Commonwealth leaders to impose economic sanctions on apartheid South Africa.
The depiction of an intransigent Thatcher stubbornly refusing to sign off on whatever form of words the Commonwealth came up with is historically entirely accurate, unlike large parts of the rest of the series.