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The Lady's Not for Burning
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(1948)
Verse comedy by Christopher Fry in which affection blossoms, amid verbal pyrotechnics, between a woman accused of witchcraft and murder (Jennet Jourdemayne) and a man (Thomas Mendip) so world-weary that he wants to die in her place until he discovers that he loves her. At the Conservative party conference in 1980 the title provided Mrs Thatcher with a widely remembered phrase. She ruled out any prospect of a U-turn on her policies with the words: 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.'
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