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Thatcher: UK's divisive leader

Margaret Thatcher was prime minister for 11 years, and she was as decisive with her policies as she was divisive with her people.

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Morrissey: 'Thatcher had completely negative traits'

Morrissey Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Singer Morrissey has reacted to the death of Margaret Thatcher by saying she was "a terror without an atom of humanity".

Writing for the Daily Beast, Morrissey said:

"Every move she made was charged by negativity; she destroyed the British manufacturing industry, she hated the miners, she hated the arts, she hated the Irish Freedom Fighters and allowed them to die, she hated the English poor...even her own Cabinet booted her out."

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