Spitting mad

KERFUFFLE AS V&A DISPLAYS THATCHER TV PUPPET BESIDE HITLER & BIN LADEN

- CHARLOTTE MCLAUGHLIN

A MUSEUM has been criticised for lumping Margaret Thatcher in with "contemporary villains" Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

The Spitting Image puppet of the ex-PM is on show at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

It is part of an exhibition about British humour with the controversial text under some Punch and Judy dolls.

According to reports, the description reads: "Punch and Judy is seen as traditionally British, but it evolved from the 16th-century Italian street performance commedia dell'arte.