Bring up the bodies

I met Margaret Thatcher half-a-dozen times in the fraught 1980s. She was inquisitive, formidable, and indifferent to opinion of her,says Allan Prosser

DINNER at 10 Downing Street. Alongside the Beef Wellington, there are three things on the table — the economic regeneration of Britain’s industrial wastelands; a plan to introduce identity cards for football supporters; and Aids.

We didn’t see that coming.