With her own cabinet in 1990 Margaret Thatcher was not so lucky-beautifully written

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/16/westminster-goodbye-margaret-thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher arrived at the Palace of Westminster for the last time two minutes early on Tuesday. The hearse carrying her coffin, draped in white flowers and the union flag, glided past the regular knot of protesters on Parliament Square, past the silent sightseers outside the abbey and into the Peers' entrance at 2.58pm. The Methodist disciplinarian, never quite erased from her character, would have approved.

Just before the cortege turned up, three ministers – Vince Cable, David Willetts and Matt Hancock – dashed through the crowd into the building. Overwhelmed with grief? Not exactly. They were voting to fend off a backbench Tory revolt against the coalition's relaxation of home extension planning laws, a recipe for suburban anarchy which might have tested her party loyalty.

The Thatcher family arrived last, Carol with what social gossips said is her "on-off boyfriend of 20 years," a tanned and curly-haired Swiss ski instructor, Sir Mark, an on-off many things, with his second wife and children.

They too were part of Thatcherism's collateral damage.