Margaret Thatcher Statue Egged and Booed Within Hours of Installation in Hometown

Margaret Thatcher Statue Egged and Booed Within Hours of Installation in Hometown
Plastic sheeting covers the plinth of the newly installed statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher in her home town of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, on May 15, 2022. Joe Giddens/PA Media
Lily Zhou
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A statue of the first British female prime minister has been egged and booed within hours after it was erected in her hometown on Sunday.

Less than two hours after the 20-foot-tall statue of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was lowered onto its 10-foot-high granite plinth in Grantham, Lincolnshire, a protester threw eggs from behind a temporary fence surrounding the memorial.

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