Article: Her reputation in Scotland is such that even members of her own party are nervous of celebrating Thatcherism's 30th birthday. So, for a nation that vigorously embraced so many of her reforms, just why is the Iron Lady still such a figure of hate?(Editorial)

Byline: SATURDAY ESSAY by John MacLeod

TONIGHT, Baroness Thatcher will be guest of honour at a dinner in Glasgow to mark Monday's anniversary. Thirty years ago, on May 4, 1979, after the Conservative Party's victory in the general election, she became Prime Minister - the first woman to command a Western democracy.

Now old, frail and no longer speaking in public, she will command an entire ballroom merely by walking into it. Yet some senior Scottish Conservatives resent this visit, sure that it will only 'revive hostility' to their party. As one vouchsafed the other day to an evening paper: 'The anniversary could not be ignored but it's never going to ...

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