{"id":387775,"date":"2011-04-22T06:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/22\/meryl-streep-pictured-as-margaret-thatcher-in-the-iron-lady\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T06:35:13","slug":"meryl-streep-pictured-as-margaret-thatcher-in-the-iron-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/22\/meryl-streep-pictured-as-margaret-thatcher-in-the-iron-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep pictured as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"376.42177563\">\n<p>Last updated at 7:35 AM on 22nd April 2011<\/p>\n<p>Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent show their true \u2014 blue \u2014 colours as they portray former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis.<\/p>\n<p>My exclusive shot is from Phyllida Lloyd\u2019s film The Iron Lady and it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the time when she made her famous \u2018You turn if you want to: the Lady is not for turning!\u2019 speech, although the speech itself is not included in the segment.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2a9darticle-1379423-0BB92E7B00000578-163_634x563.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Tory triumph: Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher in The Iron Lady with Jim Broadbent as husband Denis\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tory triumph: Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher in The Iron Lady with Jim Broadbent as husband Denis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director Lloyd and the picture\u2019s writer Abi Morgan use the conference to demonstrate Mrs Thatcher\u2019s dominance of, and popularity within, her party \u2014 as well as her deep unpopularity in the other half of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s policies, many of which were seen as Draconian.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Last updated at 7:35 AM on 22nd April 2011 Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent show their true \u2014 blue \u2014 colours as they portray former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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