I had certainly not intended to upset Margaret Thatcher when I joined the Times in 1987 but when we met she definitely took the contrary view. ‘So, you’re the young Australian whose causing me all this trouble,’ she pronounced, a dangerously large handbag hanging from her arm, when we were introduced as she arrived at a rather crowded reception at Australia House in November, 1987.
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