BRITAIN: Denis Thatcher has condemned John Major from beyond the grave, calling him a ghastly prime minister who destroyed the Conservative Party.
Mr Thatcher, always the picture of discretion beside his wife Margaret, gave his first and only interview to his daughter Carol in the months before he died in June, aged 88.
He did not mince his words about Mr Major in the interview, to be broadcast tomorrow in a Channel 4 documentary.
"He was a ghastly prime minister. More people deserted our party and we have never recovered," he said of the man who took over after his wife's political demise. "The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill."
He revealed that in the run-up to the Falklands War, he did not know where the islands were.
On his enduring marriage to the "Iron Lady", he said: "She was a nice-looking young woman, always has been."
Margaret Thatcher ends the documentary on a poignant note, saying: "I had a wonderful marriage in every way and I had the most marvellous husband that anyone in the world could ever wish for." - (Reuters)