Good Chaps
By Simon Kuper
Profile Books £9.99
Margaret Thatcher used to make Cabinet members pony up for the cost of the sandwiches during political meetings.
As the grandees fumbled grumpily for pound coins, she explained that catering could be supplied by the public purse only when they were addressing government business.
Her Foreign Secretary Peter Carrington resigned in 1982 for failing to see the Argentine threat to the Falklands - perhaps the last truly honourable resignation
