Don’t fold to the mob

as our first woman Prime Minister, she hauled this country out of the doldrums and transformed its fortunes both at home and abroad. so in this paper’s view, the arguments for erecting a statue of Margaret Thatcher are unimpeachable.

Yet the plans may be thwarted after Westminster City Council claimed Parliament square is too full and that more time should pass after Lady Thatcher’s death to allow ‘partisan passions to cool’.

In reality the council is rolling over to the vicious anti-Thatcher sentiments of hardLeft activists itching to attack her memory.

Mrs Thatcher was never cowed by her opponents, and neither should they be.

WHAT is our country becoming when a brave and loyal servant of the Armed Forces is condemned to a life spent in fear, and yet those who seek economic advantage are allowed into our country in their tens

of thousands each year? so says the former head of the military Lord Richards, who led international forces in afghanistan, about the case of the translator known as ‘Ricky’ who risked his life for our cause but who has been denied sanctuary in the country he served. The authors of this decision should be ‘ashamed’, he added. The Mail firmly agrees.