A remarkable woman
Seeing footage of the events surrounding the Falklands War 25 years ago, the sheer magnitude of the personality of Margaret Thatcher shines through. She never wavered. It was also reflected in domestic policy when she drove through trade union and tax reforms, and privatisations, which previously had been thought to have been impossible.
Last week my parliamentary colleague Gerald Howarth asked a few of us to have a cup of coffee with her. She has not been too well lately, but she wanted to talk and hear about a whole range of current issues. Of course she was at times a divisive figure but as has been said you have to break eggs to make an omelette. One of my regrets is that I was not in parliament when she was. She really is one of the great figures of our long political history.