Lucas: Thatcher’s a killer

Comedian matt Lucas has somewhat dramatically branded the late Prime minister margaret Thatcher a ‘murderer’ for discriminating against gay people.

The Little Britain comic criticises mrs Thatcher for her part in introducing the notorious Section 28 amendment in 1988, which banned schools and local authorities from promoting homosexuality.

‘i regard margaret Thatcher and the people who created and endorsed Clause 28 as murderers,’ he says in a new documentary. ‘They prevented young men from learning how not to contract aidS and die.

‘You have to remember, there was a moment when there wasn’t Clause 28 and then it came in. it wasn’t something that they inherited, it was something they initiated. F*** ’em.’

Section 28 was repealed in 2003. Lucas makes the accusation in 50 Years Legal, a new film commemorating the 1967 Sexual offences act, which decriminalised sex between two men.