It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that Denis Thatcher, the husband of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, believed it would have been better if the political party his wife led had lost the election after she left office. He seems to think it would have been a positive outcome for the country if his wife's party had been voted out of power at that time.
About Denis Thatcher
Sir Denis Thatcher was the husband of Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. He was granted the Thatcher baronetcy in 1990, making him the most recent commoner to receive a hereditary title in the UK.
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