To the Guildhall where hundreds of Thatcherites last night met to pay tribute to the Iron Lady. On the centenary of her birth, a roll call of the great and the good was assembled by the eponymous centre named in her honour. Highlights of the evening included Jeffrey Archer’s auction, where he told the crowd that ‘having been up and down the country’ on behalf of the Conservative party, ‘how good it is to see a crowd.’ An appreciative Richard Tice duly bid £1,000 for a game of tennis with Boris Johnson that eventually sold for £21,000. Talk about a backhanded compliment…
The Old Etonian was there himself to receive a reward for ‘global leadership’ given his stalwart championing of Ukraine. And, undaunted by his recent run-in with Nigel Farage, Johnson used the occasion to take a rather o