David Cameron blasts Margaret Thatcher film The Iron Lady

January 7th, 2012

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Daniel Martin

Last updated at 10:54 PM on 6th January 2012

Why now? David Cameron has complained that the Margaret Thatcher biopic is timed insensitively

David Cameron yesterday launched an
attack on the film The Iron Lady, saying it concentrates too much on
Margaret Thatcher’s dementia rather than celebrating an ‘amazing prime
minister’.

He said he wished that the film, which opened in cinemas yesterday, had been made ‘another day’.

Mr Cameron, who had had a private
viewing, accepted that Meryl Streep’s portrayl of the former prime
minister, 86, was ‘fantastic’. But he questioned whether the timing was
appropriate.

He is the most senior politician to
criticise The Iron Lady, following attacks from some who served in
Baroness Thatcher’s Cabinet. The film is set in the present, with the
former Tory leader portrayed as mentally and physically frail, and
features flashbacks to her days in office.

On BBC Radio 4’s Today, Mr Cameron
said: ‘It’s a fantastic piece of acting by Meryl Streep, but you can’t
help wondering – why do we have to have this film right now? It is much
more about ageing and elements of dementia rather than about an amazing
prime minister.

‘My sense was a great piece of acting, a staggering piece of acting, but a film I wish they could have made another day.’

Case for the defence: Meryl Streep, pictured here as BaronessThatcher, says the film will help to raise debate about the issue of dementia

Case for the defence: Meryl Streep, pictured here as Baroness Thatcher, says the film will help to raise debate about the issue of dementia

Tory leaders: Mr Cameron with BaronessThatcher on the steps of 10 Downing Street

Tory leaders: Mr Cameron with Baroness Thatcher on the steps of 10 Downing Street

Mrs Streep has received almost unanimous praise for her performance and is expected to be a strong Oscar contender.

But the film itself has received much more mixed reviews. Douglas Hurd, who served in Lady Thatcher’s Cabinet as home secretary and later foreign secretary, described it as ‘ghoulish’.

Norman Tebbit, her employment secretary, said: ‘She was never, in my experience, the half-hysterical, overemotional, overacting woman portrayed by Meryl Streep.’

And Michael Portillo, junior local government minister under Lady Thatcher, said he ‘felt uncomfortable’ about scenes of her infirmity.

But director Phyllida Lloyd said: ‘We all felt that a portrait of somebody who is experiencing a failure of strength and health and forgetfulness is not a shameful thing to put on the screen.’

Former Tory MP Matthew Parris said the film ‘never remotely mocks or insults’.

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I am amazed that my comment has always failed to appear, in any post about Mrs T or sex equality. Mrs T wrote in 1952 that our Queen heralded a new age for women. They shouldn’t be afraid to pursue an education and career if they wanted to. She thought that one day a woman might be in No.11, little realising that one day she would be in No.10! I have kept this article since my Mother-in-law gave it to me as it is truly inspirational, even though it is nearly 60 years old. I hope this film captures that side of her character.

– Helen, Essex, 06/1/2012 16:34

I’m finding it a little more ‘insensitive’ that so many high profile people are going around saying that the producers should have just hung on until she popped her clogs…

– Mrs G, Wolverhampton, 06/1/2012 16:31

Have not seen the film. But they might be some truths in it they might have used artistic license for some parts..So when they bring the three minute cartoon out for you Dave then you can have a whine.

– andy c , York Yorkshire , 06/1/2012 16:12

Ah! diddums then….The poor old dear was totally insensitive to the people she put out of business or lost their jobs, houses.etc,c. – Peter Walters, Milton Keynes, 06/1/2012 10:27 ++++++++++++ Have you noticed the same under Blair/Brown over the past 13 years or so ?. I doubt you were even alive before and during Mrs. Thatcher in Government, and are just repeating rubbish you picked up from some Lefty nitwit.
– Roy, IoW Nr. England…………Unemployment actually dropped dramatically in those 13 years, up until the banks bankrupted us.

– Justin Canham, Redditch, 06/1/2012 15:51

I’m sure Thatcher can stand on her own two feet.

– Justin Canham, Redditch, 06/1/2012 15:49

Must we wait till she dies before allowed to say what a bitch she was?…..And oh how the Tories ‘Spin’, the term ‘Iron Lady’ was NOT intended as a compliment when it was first coined by the Russian newspaper ‘Red Star’.

– Fred Steele, Hinckley Leicestershire, 06/1/2012 15:35

I did not expect to hear anything else from cameron how patronising is that to a prime minister that the loyal tories kicked out of office as soon as they realised how unpopular she had become, cameron is having a good run at the moment like she once did and once the novelty of this spin expert is rumbled he will meet the same fate.

– keith thompson, sheffield england, 06/1/2012 15:30

Are we supposed to conceal the reality of dementia because it is painful to behold ? Should we massage reality so as not to offend our politicians and their personal icons ? Should we bother to listen to their sanctimonious utterings and pay any attention to their hand wringing insincerity ? Do we live in a free society or what ????

– Lockhart of the Lee, London, 06/1/2012 15:06

Whatever Cameron’s views on the film, surely he has more pressing matters to deal with? Incompetent fool.

– John Michael Dorian M.D., Sacred Heart, 06/1/2012 15:04

I should think Maggie knows what a lot of people think of her. If I were Dave he should be worrying about what people think about him. I might not be a fan of Maggie, but she had a hell of a lot more go than he has or has any chance of having.

– Pete, Lincs, 06/1/2012 14:18

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