Spice Girls' Melanie Chisholm has taken issue with bandmate Geri Horner's remarks about Margaret Thatcher. Ginger once dubbed Margaret Thatcher as "the first Spice Girl" during a 1996 interview with The Spectator. Geri declared: " We Spice Girls are true Thatcherites. Thatcher was the first Spice Girl , the pioneer of our ideology – Girl Power," however, Mel later refuted the idea that all five members were admirers of the former Tory Prime Minister.