Twelve years after her death, Margaret Thatcher—or her ghost—continues to stir passions in the United Kingdom. In favor, among those most nostalgic for a government that, after the turbulent Labour administrations, gradually ended the power of the unions from 1979 onwards, forever changing the face of the country's work and society. Against, among the left, more aware that the Iron Lady was able to "change the times," according to the reference of the speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, in the session in the fourth April 10, 2013, on the occasion of his transfer. Bercow also quoted Churchill in Parliament: "There are some politicians who make the weather [some politicians 'change time' in the sense that they make history] and Margaret Thatcher was certainly one of them."