THE film about Margaret Thatcher's political rise and fall, which shows her suffering from dementia in old age, was last night condemned as "ghoulish" by one of the former prime minister's key lieutenants.
Lord Hurd, who was foreign secretary from 1989 to 1995, stressed, after watching a preview of The Iron Lady, that the fact the 86-year-old ex-premier was still alive should have given the film-makers "pause to wait" in making the movie.
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