Thatcher has made the Bank of England‘s longlist to be the figure to feature on the new £50 NOTE.

Ministers ditched plans to scrap the £50 note this weekend and revealed that a brand new shiny redesigned £50 note will be introduced in 2020. There are plans to hold a competition to design the new note, and with only one woman apart from the Queen featured on any of the new polymer notes so far, Guido has made a helpful suggestion in the interests of gender equality. Add your voice to the calls to put the UK’s greatest Prime Minister on the new note by signing the petition here…

Following Guido’s petition, Margaret Thatcher has made the Bank of England‘s longlist to be the figure to feature on the new £50 note.

Other figures on the list include  Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Alexander Graham Bell, and Alexander Fleming. In total the longlist includes over 600 men and almost 200 women. The decision will be considered by the Bank’s Banknote Character Advisory Committee in mid December. In the interests of gender equality, it’s got to be Maggie…