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thatcher gets her hands dirty.
A rare picture here: Mrs Thatcher getting her hands dirty. She was in Cornwall on a May 1983 election tour and......... Read More

and plunged her hands into a pile of straw for some TV cameras, expecting to grasp wholesome wheat. Instead she found it was a bit of loose straw on top of a steaming pile of dung. “You can’t use that,” she said. Murdoch being Roger's paymaster at the time and a Tory supporter - it wasn't! We saw a print of it in Roger's hallway as we trawled his archive for our 'Unearthed' Bamber exhibition. We thought it was perfect, it even has Dennis peering in the distance to see what's going on. After Kevin/DarkDaze (our the studio manager on his first exhibition!) worked on the file for our show it consequently got used to print a 7ft version as headline image for an artists political satire exhibition in London.

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