The news over the weekend that Lady Thatcher was in hospital overnight for tests must have got the obituary writers dusting off their copy but she emerged for hospital waving to the crowds and looking in good health.
Charles Moore writes in yesterday's Telegraph that
Margaret Thatcher has always suffered from low blood pressure. As a result, she tends to faint, particularly if it is too hot.This is what seems to have happened at the House of Lords on Friday night. It turns out not to have been too serious. She is already out of hospital.
But when there is a scare like this - there was a similar incident when she went to hospital after fainting at her hairdresser's two and a half years ago - people re-examine their attitude to our first woman prime minister. They pause, and reflect
Whatever those reflections are,I confidently predict that the media will have seen nothing like it since the death of Diana
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