A judge has ruled that a man who made a bequest leaving the Conservative party £8.3m was not of sane mind. Pharmaceutical mogul Branislav Kostic believed Margaret Thatcher was “the greatest leader of the free world in history” and that she would save the world from the “satanic monsters and freaks”.

How can that be? These are self-evident truths for the members of Conservative Way Forward, self-appointed keepers of the Thatcherite flame. Guido bumped into CWF’s Mark Allatt at the Tory Party conference, he felt the police had over-reacted to his publicity stunt – parking a 12-tonne tank outside the conference centre and unloading uniformed actors carrying AK-47 machine guns. “They were deactivated AK-47s” he protested incredulously. Not mad at all…