Margaret Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore made the revelation live on BBC Question Time.
The shocking news comes amid the turmoil of Theresa May’s Tory meltdown.
The Foreign Secretary, Brexit Secretary, two Tory Vice chairs and 6 Cabinet Ministers have resigned in an historically unprecedented series of hits to the shaky Tory regime.
At any other point in British history, the Prime Minister would have resigned.
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