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Film about Margaret Thatcher's life, which is expected to star Meryl Streep, shows the former prime minister as a dementia-sufferer looking back at her life with sadness. Although the prospect of Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher may have pleased some admirers of the Conservative former prime minister, her children have been horrified to discover more about the film. Mandrake hears that the screenplay of The Iron Lady depicts Baroness Thatcher as an elderly dementia-sufferer looking back on her career with sadness. She is shown talking to herself and unaware that her husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, has died. “Sir Mark and...

Lord Tebbit has hit out at Barack Obama's anti-BP rhetoric, calling it 'despicable' and adding to pressure on David Cameron to intervene. The Prime Minister is facing growing calls to defend the British-based multinational amid claims it is being made a scapegoat for the US oil spill. Lord Tebbit, a former trade secretary, suggested the President was attacking BP to distract from his administration's impotence. Writing on his website, he said Mr Obama's attitude was explicable but 'despicable'. He went on: 'The whole might of American wealth and technology is displayed as utterly unable to deal with the disastrous spill...

Boris Johnson and Lord Tebbit have hit out at Barack Obama’s anti-BP rhetoric, adding to pressure on David Cameron to intervene. The Prime Minister is facing growing calls to defend the British-based multinational against increasingly outspoken attacks by the U.S. President over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London Mayor said BP was paying 'a very,very heavy price' for what had been an accident, and pointed out that UK pension funds had a 'huge exposure' to BP. And Lord Tebbit, a former trade and industry secretary, suggested the U.S. President was attacking BP to distract from his...