100 years ago, a baby was born in Grantham. Who then would have predicted that this grocer’s daughter would become Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister and a global superstar? We are still talking about for two main reasons. First, her achievements in office. Governments in other parts of the world have copied some of her policies, privatisation for example. Her contribution to the ending of the Cold War has passed into history as the victory of the ideas of economic and poli