Guido is late to this, but quite a stunning resemblance:

As His Grace said, probably as close to the truth as the film will get…

Margaret Thatcher said in 1977….

“People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”

A dull and bloodless PMQs was livened up as Meryl Streep was spotted in the gallery getting tips for her upcoming film about Thatcher. Number 10 apparently organised the ticket, though Guido isn’t sure why given what has emerged so far about its content. For some reason Streep apparently plays a sad Baroness, looking back at her life with regret. Guido’s heart is bleeding already. Personally he reckons they should have stuck with Oliver Stone’s plan of casting Sienna Miller in the role for his biopic…

Their silence is an admission of guilt, Peter Oborne names the guilty men. And the heroine who sacrificed herself and saved Britain from the euro disaster…

Guido is off to tonight’s launch of New Direction, a new free market think-tank seeking to modernise the structures of the EU. He will be avoiding Gerald Howarth for obvious reason, and will hopefully get to ask the keynote speaker Liam Fox how he managed to leak that letter.

Though the star of the show will no doubt be Maggie…

Word is Meryl Streep is being lined up to play Maggie in an upcoming FilmFour biopic. Jim Broadbent will be hovering by the drinks cupboard as Dennis. Despite the lefty tendency of the Channel Four crowd, their film-wing are pretty good at sticking to the facts. The film will focus on the weeks running up to the Falklands. Despite the fact Mamma Mia’s director Phyllida Lloyd is at the helm, Thatcher won’t be have any songs or dancing. Guess we’ll have to wait for Maggie! The Musical…

Yesterday’s cartoon mocking David Ruffley’s train jumping has variously been described as ‘indefensible’, ‘sick’ and ‘a step too far’. The cartoonist is delighted.

Some, who really shouldn’t, laughed, others ranted, texted and threatened. Will Ruffley be harmed in any way? No. Political cartoons have offended people for centuries, long may it continue. Please don’t bother complaining, go to Tate Britain instead and see some really rude cartoons…

In a story yesterday Guido reported that

Guido has been told that three weeks ago Margaret Thatcher wrote a personal plea to her great admirer Václav Klaus, to stand firm, in the hope of strengthening his resolve. It was to be delivered by William Hague.

Lady Thatcher’s office say she did not.  Apologies to Margaret Thatcher and William Hague.