[politics] Dear Bill: They’ve Called Last Orders — Simon Hoggart sums up Denis Thatcher …

‘The received wisdom now is that Denis Thatcher was far from being a gin-soaked old bigot. Well, up to a point. But he certainly relished the world of the golf and rugby club bar, the just-time-for-a-quick-sharpener, the jovial trust-you-to-walk-in-when-it’s-my-round culture. Or as he once put it to his wife when she queried his request for a stiff drink on a morning flight to Scotland: “My dear, it is never too early for a gin and tonic.” “He had,” said an appreciative lunch guest at Chequers, “a very sharp eye for a refill.” And if the term means anything at all, he was a bigot.’

Simon Hoggart Sums Up Denis Thatcher

This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2003 at 2:25 pm and is filed under Politics, Simon Hoggart.

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