Dominic Sandbrook working with composer Joseph Phibbs on project that will explore Thatcher’s time as PM

The Rest is History podcast co-host Dominic Sandbrook is writing an opera about the life of Margaret Thatcher that will cover her 11-year tenure as prime minister.

Released to mark the centenary of her birth, Mrs T is being described as “an intimate exploration of one of the most polarising and influential figures in British politics”.