THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Margaret Thatcher’s success as British Prime Minister was down to her tough upbringing as a child, according to the Baroness’s daughter Carol.
Carol Thatcher, 59, paid tribute to her mother for developing skills gleaned from her “austere childhood” and a lack of "luxuries", which helped shape her glittering career in public life.
Lady Thatcher’s daughter said skills such as discipline, motivation and “tunnel vision” were instrumental in her political career, which ended in her becoming the country’s first and only female occupant of Downing Street.
Miss Thatcher said that her mother’s tough upbringing helped her become a “very motivated” person.
The pre-recorded comments were made in a BBC documentary last night, which was presented by Andrew Marr, one of the corporation's leading political journalists.
She told the former BBC Political Editor: “My mother certainly had an austere childhood. Material luxuries were in short supply.
“I think everything she put into use in her career in later life, was gleaned from her childhood – the discipline, the motivation and the tunnel vision.
“She was a very motivated child, a very motivated teenager and we all know what a motivated adult she became.” » | Andrew Hough | Tuesday, April 09, 2013
