When we talk about women succeeding in male-dominated fields it’s usually because someone has excelled in STEM or started a war. And in fairness, Margaret Thatcher did actually do both. But according to a newly released biography – the Incidental Feminist by Tina Gaudoin – she performed in another area classically associated with men: having affairs.

Gaudoin claims that multiple sources, including novelist and former minister Jonathan Aitken, told her that Margaret Thatcher was involved with somebody other than her husband “very early on in her parliamentary career” and then “quite possibly” later involved with Sir Humphrey Atkins, the MP for Spelthorne, who allegedly kept being promoted despite not being terribly good at his job.

It’s an interesting claim and I’ve no idea whether it’s

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