“Oh, you’re embarrassing her now,” Jenrick mentioned as he was pressed on the identify.
“It’s Margaret Thatcher … It’s Thatcher. She was born the yr that Margaret Thatcher died.”
Jenrick mentioned he’d picked the identify as a result of he respects “sturdy girls.”
“I believed it was a great way of reminding her of a superb prime minister,” he added.
It’s unlikely to do Jenrick, the bookmakers’ favourite to steer the Conservative Celebration after a hefty election defeat, a lot hurt.
A 2021 ballot discovered that the free-market Thatcher, who led the Tories to 3 successive election wins and reshaped the British state through the Eighties, ranks behind solely Winston Churchill in Brits’ estimations of who was greatest within the prime job.