London welcomes Isabel Díaz Ayuso as Madrid's Margaret Thatcher

LondonIsabel Díaz Ayuso is now officially the Iron Lady of Madrid. Hours before the Madrid president speaks in London at the Margaret Thatcher Conservative Political Conference 2025 –a coven of right-wingers, ultras, neocons and Trumpists–, which celebrates the legacy of the premier and wants to adapt it to the 21st century, Daily Telegraph, co-sponsor of the meeting, welcomes it on the cover with a significant title: "Margaret Thatcher of Madrid: We take the testosterone out of politicsAyuso is the first Spanish political figure to speak at the conference since it was held in 2018, and she is also taking part as a keynote speaker. In this sense, Ayuso declares: "We are the new Miami, an open door between Europe and the American continent, where people not only come to find work, but also to establish their businesses and bring their families. It's our version of the American Dream."

After reviewing Spain's positive macroeconomic figures—without going into details such as the widespread housing problem—columnist James Badcock writes: "Madrid is leading the trend. The region presided over by Ayuso has surpassed Catalonia and become Spain's leading regional economy, attracting more than 70% of foreign investment in the country last year." And then she hands it over to the president: "There is unprecedented international investment and great global interest in Madrid," Ayuso tells The Telegraph, and attributes the region's success to her Thatcherite policies of low taxation and the removal of barriers to entrepreneurship.

The Daily Telegraph She identifies her as a "strong candidate to become the first female president of the Spanish government," since it is "Ayuso, and not the moderate leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who openly confronts Pedro Sánchez." The president advertises her tax cuts, key to the economic success she proclaims: "Madrid is the only place in Spain," says Ayuso, "without its own regional taxes. We have applied low taxes, adequate taxes. Madrid is the most competitive region, with the highest digital employment, higher salaries, and the greatest openness to investment."

Regarding international politics, the Madrid leader declares herself a "total admirer of Reagan" and guarantees that her "Madrid government is always pro-United States, pro-NATO, pro-European Union, and, above all, pro-West." And she states: "Whenever I've seen the American flag, I've thought that these are my people."

The Prosecutor's Office is prosecuting deaths in nursing homes.

There is also no shortage of direct charges against the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, and the vindication of their policies during COVID, keeping the city open against the political consensus that advocated lockdowns: "Madrid is the defense of freedom in all its forms," Ayuso concludes. "We saw it during the pandemic, and now in our daily lives: the streets are full of life, day and night, and everyone can find their own way of life."

However, she doesn't mention the victims of COVID in nursing homes, who made headlines last week with the documentary broadcast on RTVE about the 7,291 deaths that occurred during the months of the pandemic, and which Ayuso herself tried to boycott. This Monday, the Madrid Prosecutor's Office filed precisely nine complaints to investigate whether any of the senior centers denied healthcare for discriminatory reasons by not referring them to hospitals. This is the Public Prosecutor's Office's response to the collective complaint from 109 families of people who lost their lives during the hardest moments of the pandemic.