Death Wish 2

摘要

For an organisation that has always valued loyalty and good manners above all things, these are strange times. In the week when ballot papers for the leadership contest went out to the members, Lady Thatcher launched an extraordinarily bitter attack on Kenneth Clarke, the Europhile former chancellor of the exchequer. Mr Clarke, one of the candidates for the leadership, was one of those who helped eject her from power in 1990. Declaring her unconditional support for his rival, the Eurosceptic shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, she described Mr Clarke as "a political has-been" who would be "a disaster" for the party if elected leader.