Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Margaret Thatcher n.

also Maggie Thatcher
[rhy. sl. = scratcher n. (6); ult. UK Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (b.1925)]

(Irish) a bed.

[Ire]P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘The Margaret?’ ‘The Margaret Thatcher. The scratcher.’ ‘Oh, the bed. I see’.
[Ire]P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 7: I’m wrecked. I’m going to hit the old Margaret Thatcher.
[Scot]I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 43: — Where’s kid sis? Still in the Maggie Thatcher?