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Margaret Thatcher: the original Marmite, before Marmite meant that

Margaret Thatcher: the original Marmite, before Marmite meant that

People say Margaret Thatcher loved Marmite. There is no real evidence she ever ate it, her documented diet was grapefruit, eggs, lamb and whisky. The closest she came was a surprise 1992 visit to Marston's brewery in Burton-on-Trent, whose spent yeast feeds the Marmite factory next door. The genuine link, though, runs the other way: she is the figure 'a bit Marmite' was practically invented to describe.

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