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was a great assembly of Thatcherites for the launch of Charles Moore’s final volume of the biography of Mrs T, but the Iron Lady might have baulked at the wine served at Whitehall’s Banqueting House: it was from Argentina. Moore noted the party was in the room Charles I walked through before being beheaded. Was guest Boris Johnson worried about that precedent? ‘Boris, please leave with your head held high — and on your shoulders,’ said Moore.