A controversial figure during her reign as Prime Minster, thanks to the Cold War and Miner's Strike, it is Lady Thatcher's leather handbags that became a icon of her government. While she once described her handbag as the only safe place in Downing Street, her colleagues came to see them as symbolic of her philosophy.

Julian Critchley, one of Baroness Thatcher's biggest Tory backbench critics remarked:

"Margaret Thatcher and her handbag is the same as Winston Churchill and his cigar."

Critchley also coined the verb "to handbag" when he said:

"She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag",

While a closer ally, Nicholas Ridley once remarked in her absence at a cabinet committee meeting:

"Why don't we start? The handbag is here."

Lady Thatcher's quality leather handbags are associated with a timeless style and an individualism which led them to being dubbed as ‘cool'. They even inspired handbag designers such as Marc Jacobs and one of her black leather handbags sold at auction for over $100,000 to a Scottish business man, after receiving 63 bids! In it was a signed note from Baroness Thatcher. The proceeds went to a breast cancer charity called Breast Cancer Care. After the auction Mrs. Thatcher remarked how pleased she was that her leather handbags had not only done her a good service in the Cabinet but also that they had such an influence and had raised so much money for a good cause.

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