Mr Speaker, I want to join the Prime Minister in commemorating the extraordinary life and unique contribution of Margaret Thatcher.
And I want to join him in sending my deepest condolences to her children, Carol and Mark, the whole family and her many, many close friends.
Today is an opportunity for us to reflect on Margaret Thatcher’s personal achievements, her style of politics and her political legacy.
As the Prime Minister said, the journey from being the child of a grocer to Downing Street is an unlikely one.
And it is particularly remarkable because she was the daughter, not the son, of a grocer.
At each stage of her life, she broke the mould.
A woman at Oxford when there was not a single woman in the University who held a full professorship.
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