Richard E. Grant rewrites history with Thatcher gaffe

Oscar nominee richard E. Grant has been basking in the acclaim for his performance in can You Ever Forgive Me?, but he’s unlikely to win awards for his political punditry.

In an interview with the Hollywood reporter, Grant curiously ascribes the fall of Margaret Thatcher to the Gulf War, rather than Europe or the poll tax.

recalling his move to London from swaziland in 1982, the Withnail and I star says: ‘I got there just as the then- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was sending troops to the south atlantic to fight argentina about the Falkland Islands.

‘But it was part of this churchillian jingoism that she pursued in order to try and save her political skin and when she tried the same tactics eight years later for the Iraq War, people went: “Eh eh. We’re not having that all over again. You’re out.” ’

clearly there was a limit to the research Grant undertook when playing Michael Heseltine in the Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady.