Despite the absence through illness of the main guest, there was an excellent atmosphere in 10 Downing Street on Thursday at David Cameron’s party in honour of Margaret Thatcher’s 85th birthday. In a generous and witty speech, the Prime Minister celebrated her courage. He said that, as a schoolboy of 15, “listening to the radio every half hour” for the latest news of the Falklands war, he appreciated for the first time what leadership in a time of danger really meant. He promised that his Government, in the extraordinary challenges it faces, would try to show comparable grit.
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