The amazing thing about the funeral of Baroness Thatcher was the size of the crowds, and the next amazing thing was that they were so relatively well behaved. The BBC had done its best to foment an uprising. With habitual good taste, they played ‘Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead’ on taxpayer-public radio.
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Boris Johnson is the Conservative Mayor of London and a former editor of The Spectator (1999-2006). This is an extract from his address to the Centre for Policy Studies in London last week.
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