'Thatcher has died' message causes chaos: but it was a moggy, not Maggie (read it first)
There will only ever be one Iron Lady, but confusion between Maggie and a moggy led to the Canadian Government preparing its condolences for the death of Baroness Thatcher. John Baird, the country’s Transport Minister, set the cat among the pigeons by sending a text message to a friend reading: “Thatcher has died.” The message spread quickly among the BlackBerrys of the 1,700 fellow Conservatives gathered in Toronto for a black-tie dinner to honour the country’s military. Soon Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, had received the news that “Lady Thatcher had passed away”. The usual dinner chatter died away...
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