2 MARCH 1991, Page 23

Getting warmer

Sir: In Noel Malcolm's bleeding hearts column for Lady Thatcher (`Margaret Thatcher: the silent years', 16 February), he might have added that in all her 11 years as Prime Minister, she was never able or perhaps never wanted to become what her successor became in as many weeks: Prime Minister of all the country and not just a partisan section of it. The change in the political climate is remarkable.

Ludovic Kennedy

Ashdown, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire