Free lunch
Sir: Unlike Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 11 November), I have been to luncheon with the Prime Minister in the Thatchers' flat upstairs at Number Ten. Incidentally, she cleared away the dishes herself. So my perspective is rather diffe- rent from his.
What I should like to correct is Noel Malcolm's impression that 'a few members of her constituency association' are the only 'ordinary people' that she meets in Finchley. From my observation over sever-
LETTERS
al years, I know that she talks and listens to a great many people both inside and outside the Finchley Conservative Associa- tion. I soon formed the impression that she goes back to Whitehall and Westminster able to say: 'When I was in my constituen- cy yesterday, people were saying . . . etc.'
Oh dear, I suppose this letter will find its way into the OBN column of Private Eye. Ian Hislop should know that — as the last Member for Finchley on the Greater Lon- don Council — I did have my differences with Mrs Thatcher as well.
Neville Beale
Chelsea Manor Street, London SW3
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