Claim: Margaret Thatcher once said anyone on a bus over the age of 25 is a failure.
Fact-check: Did Margaret Thatcher say bus users over the age of 25 were failures? - Full Fact
Verdict: we can't prove whether she did or didn't say it, but she definitely didn't coin the phrase.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2019-04-26T00:00:00