Spitting Image Thatcher dummy lands a place at Cambridge Uni

A MARGARET Thatcher dummy has been accepted to Cambridge University.

The frightening puppet from the hit satirical TV show Spitting Image has a place in the university’s archive.

It is from series co-creator Roger Law’s personal collection and will be joined by a video of the unbroadcast pilot episode and scores of sketches and scripts. MONSTER MASK Maggie puppet Delighted Mr Law said there “couldn’t be a better place for it”. University librarian Dr Jessica Gardner said: “My eyes lit up and my sense of the political, cultural and historical importance of this archive was immediate to me.”

Ian Hislop, a scriptwriter on the show which ran from 1984 to 1996, said: “It is about time Roger Law is to be studied properly.”