Thatcher wanted to join Indian Civil Service

London: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to join the erstwhile Indian Civil Service and serve the country. Thatcher, also known as the “Iron Lady”, told an interviewer on Yorkshire Television in 1985: “I had an ambition as a child. I wanted to be part of the Indian Civil Service, because our Civil Service was the best in the world,” newly released papers by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation quoted her as saying. She added: “We were told that Britain was the best in the world because she had standards of honesty and integrity and law. The Indian Civil Service was part of our Civil Service and it was thus the best in the world. Also, it was to do things for the Indians, to help them.” “I said: “I think, Daddy, if I manage to get to the university — it was a privilege in those days — I think I’d like to go in the ICS, because I will be able to do something for them!.”

Thatcher, however, did not join the ICS, but went on to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.

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Thatcher wanted to join Indian Civil Service

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