In an extraordinary claim, Sylvester McCoy, who played Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989, and Andrew Cartmel, the then script editor, have both admitted that it "seemed the right thing to do".
"Critics, media pundits and politicians certainly didn't pick up on what we were doing. If we had generated controversy and become a cause célèbre we would have got a few more viewers but, sadly, nobody really noticed or cared."
Indeed.
A spokesman for the BBC said it was "baffled" by the claims.
Doctor Who 'had anti-Thatcher agenda' - Telegraph
