Moira Buffini: Margaret Thatcher handbagged me into respecting her
Researching my play about the divisive Tory leader showed me how her tragedy was derived from the very thing that gave her such success: her inflexibilityMargaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, when I was a schoolgirl of 13. When she was ousted by her own party in 1990, I was working as a drama teacher in Holloway prison. My life had changed completely during her years in office; so had the country I lived in.She wa…