Fury as Margaret Thatcher dubbed ‘villain’ alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden by V&A museum

THE V&A museum has sparked fury after branding Margaret Thatcher a "villain" like Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

The caption features under a pair of Punch and Judy puppets at an exhibition on British humour through the ages.

It reads: "Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains."

Hitler's Holocaust systematically exterminated over six million Jews during WW2 while Al-Qaeda terror nut bin Laden masterminded 9/11.

A puppet of Baroness Thatcher from the satirical TV show Spitting Image is also on display at the London museum, whose director is ex-Labour MP Tristram Hunt.

Nile Gardiner, a former aide to Mrs Thatcher, branded the exhibit "disgraceful" and called for the V&A's funding to be stripped.

Ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith also questioned the museum's funding, the .

He added: "Given the fact that MPs are now regularly receiving death threats, myself included, from extremists and others, this V&A exhibition is ill-thought and mendacious."

The V&A received most of its income, more than £67million, in taxpayers' cash, according to figures from 2022-2023.

Tory MP Sir Conor Burns added: "It is sadly symptomatic of the woke, luvvie-dom nonsense that persists in our public institutions."

Margaret Thatcher served as Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.

She died in 2013.

The Victoria & Albert is the world's largest museum of decorative art and design with more than two million objects.

The Sun has approached the museum for comment.