If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.