After a one-to-one meeting with Gordon Brown, Baroness Thatcher will have a tour of Downing Street before Mrs Brown joins them for tea.
Unbelievable.
4pm: This is how the Downing Street website is covering the visit:
"Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned to Downing Street today for private talks with Gordon Brown. Lady Thatcher was greeted with a warm handshake from the Prime Minister as she arrived outside Number 10 before the two headed off for a private meeting. During his press conference earlier this week, Mr Brown described Lady Thatcher as a "conviction politician" who "saw the need for change". Lady Thatcher was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990."
4.45pm: The day gets more surreal...
Iain Dale phoning in to BBC News 24: "... isn't it great to see her back in Downing Street, back where she belongs?"
Presenter Sally Nugent bringing the conversation to an end: "It is."
I thought I was dreaming about the RETURN of our MOST GLORIOUS AND BLESSED LEADER.
Posted by: DavisFan | September 13, 2007 at 15:13
As I posted on my blog... surely she isnt going to be an adviser to Brown too!
Posted by: Jonathan Sheppard | September 13, 2007 at 15:16
One has to wonder whether Gordon Brown sees this as a great photo opprtunity. It would certainly be interesting to be a fly on the wall. Wonder if the sub-prime crisis will come up?
Posted by: Tony Makara | September 13, 2007 at 15:16
If Madame is in No 10 then there's clearly something very nasty being smuggled out by the spin doctors this afternoon.
And will That Great Lady get the Mercer/Bercow treatment?
Posted by: Teesbridge | September 13, 2007 at 15:17
I think she's telling us what she thinks of Cameron. Good for her.
Posted by: Radical Tory | September 13, 2007 at 15:17
That's good...it shows there are no hard feelings....but it is so Blair !!
Posted by: TomTom | September 13, 2007 at 15:18
It warms the heart to see her back inside Number 10, that's for sure! A very clever move by Brown on a day when traditionalist Tories will be feeling knocked sideways by the Quality of Life report. Brown is very, very clever.
Posted by: Donal Blaney | September 13, 2007 at 15:19
... and I dreamt that Mrs T turned round and went back into No 10, after waving Mr B off home to Kirkcaldy.
I must ease up on Sanatogen consumption.
Posted by: Ken Stevens | September 13, 2007 at 15:23
Donal - Brown is certainly very clever. Though Cameroons always seem to underestimate him. They'll never learn and they'll pay the price of course.
If only Lady Thatcher would come out and tell the country what she thinks of Cameron. I wish she would go for his throat.
Posted by: Radical Tory | September 13, 2007 at 15:26
Wish she was still there. Very clever of Brown. Cameron won't be best pleased, but hey ho.
Posted by: Justin Hinchcliffe | September 13, 2007 at 15:27
I can only imagine the vitriol that would appear here if Ted Heath had still been alive and done the same thing.
Posted by: Iain Lindley | September 13, 2007 at 15:30
If Maggie is about to defect to New Labour she could be taking a lot of us with her.
Posted by: Traditional Tory | September 13, 2007 at 15:31
@Donal Blaney
Spot on, Donal. And he has appointed Margaret's very own advertisers, Itchy and Scratchy, to promote the Labour cause.
So what on earth are we doing publishing this facile and vote numbing guff?
Margot and Jerry Leadbetter Present: The Good Life Report.
Conclusion:
Literally: If It Moves Tax It!
I hang my head in despair.
Posted by: englandism | September 13, 2007 at 15:33
I think brown is being very shrewd here,he obviouly thinks that if cameron can pull us to the left then there will be a great hole on the right to be filled and i noticed he is wearing a lot of blue ties lately..also as i said in my recent post it may be Lady T's way of showing her utter contempt of what the cameroons have done to her once mighty project in the conservative party,i am no fan of gordon but he is a very very shrewd operator.
Posted by: Gnosis | September 13, 2007 at 15:34
My cup is filled to overflowing! Oh dear, here come the tears.......
Posted by: John Coles | September 13, 2007 at 15:36
Unsurprising, deeply cynical piece of political shenanigans by Brown. The more he keeps this up, the sooner everyone will see him for the manipulative, devious little machine politician that he is.
Posted by: James Burdett | September 13, 2007 at 15:37
Hopefully she'll handbag him into calling a referedum on the EU treaty.
Posted by: Paul Oakley | September 13, 2007 at 15:38
This won't go down well with the comrades in the West Lancashire Labour party whose loathing of the greatest post-war Prime Minister is limitless.
Indeed, the only claim to fame of our MP, Rosie Cooper has been to ensure that Tony Blair blocked a state funeral for Lady Thatcher.
Posted by: Adrian Owens | September 13, 2007 at 15:39
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