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Kirsty Wark: Newsnight host on 'sharp go' she got from Thatcher after 'uncomfortable' chat

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Kirsty Wark, 65, recalled her tense encounter with Margaret Thatcher back in 1990, when she was assigned to interview the Prime Minister at the time in Scotland for Newsnight.The broadcaster said the pair got off to a shaky start, when Downing Street asked the BBC to take her "off the job" as Margaret "didn't like" being interviewed by women.The course of the interview went decidedly downhill from there, as the PM couldn't understand why Scotland would not vote for her.Kirsty revealed: "The Prime Minister was on a charm offensive in Scotland.The problem was, it had gone horribly wrong because she couldn't understand why people could embrace her policies, particularly buying a council house, but still not vote for her."Also, she didn't like.

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