A NEW book is claiming Margaret Thatcher had not one but two affairs. And by an amazing coincidence Jilly Cooper was working on a novel about this very subject. Here are some extracts.

Chapter 1

It was another boring Downing Street reception in 1982. ‘If Monsieur Delors drones on about closer European integration for much longer I shall ram the Treaty of Rome up his bottom,’ sighed Mrs Thatcher to herself.

Her annoyance was interrupted by a voice from behind her. ‘Salmon and cucumber canapé?’

It was none other than Major Hugo Dashcock, the handsome army officer reputed to have bedded such 1980s beauties as Selina Scott and Wincey Willis. ‘I’d like a mouthful of his cucumber,’ thought Mrs Thatcher, realistically.

Chapter 2

In a Downing Street guest bedroom, Mrs Thatcher and Majo

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