Last updated at 7:35 AM on 22nd April 2011
Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent show their true — blue — colours as they portray former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis.
My exclusive shot is from Phyllida Lloyd’s film The Iron Lady and it’s a recreation of the 1980 Conservative Party conference at Brighton, when the Fighting Lady (as Time magazine dubbed her that year) put the country on alert over battles with unions regarding pay and jobs.
It was also the time when she made her famous ‘You turn if you want to: the Lady is not for turning!’ speech, although the speech itself is not included in the segment.
Tory triumph: Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher in The Iron Lady with Jim Broadbent as husband Denis
Director Lloyd and the picture’s writer Abi Morgan use the conference to demonstrate Mrs Thatcher’s dominance of, and popularity within, her party — as well as her deep unpopularity in the other half of the nation.
Outside the Grand Hotel and the all-blue iron curtain of the Tory Party faithful, thousands of protesters had marched on Brighton to express their anger at Mrs Thatcher’s policies, many of which were seen as Draconian.