 for complete strangers you might be the nearest thing they're going to get to the prime minister and they hope you'll pass on um their good ideas on what's wrong with the government which of course you don't and my father and I was his biographer because what was it like to be Mr Margaret Thatcher he was the first male consort in um Downing Street because she was the first woman prime minister I remember him saying at the end of the election campaign said ah