I'm the PM ... Get me out of here

Thatcher told the other campers about plans to celebrate the anniversary of her mother acquiring the nickname Iron Lady. She said: "It's the 30th anniversary next year of the Ruskies [Russians] calling my mum the Iron Lady. I really do want to do something because I do think there is a gap, in that we never knew what did the Russians think about her?

"She was given that nickname, which did her the power of good internationally ... because people expected her to be tough."

The singer Jimmy Osmond asked what Lady Thatcher did for fun these days. "Well, not a lot," Thatcher replied. "She's not very well. She's got to a ripe old age really and if you hold down that sort of job for 11 and a half years something is going to blow a gasket on you, isn't it?"