Shortly after he was inaugurated, Thatcher and Carrington [Foreign Secretary] were talking over a drink one evening in Downing Street when the conversation turned to the new president, at which Thatcher tapped the side of her skull and said: “Peter there’s nothing there.”

Geoffrey Woodcraft’s review of Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East by Azriel Bermant in London Review of Books 13 September 2018 p18

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