PETER HITCHENS: Posing in one of our few tanks, Liz Truss, is not the same as being an Iron Lady

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I was there. We all gasped as Mrs Thatcher appeared in the turret of a British Army Challenger tank, dressed like Lawrence of Arabia in flowing prophetic white garments and a cruel-looking pair of goggles. 

No doubt she was wearing high heels too, whatever the Army might have advised her about how unsuitable they were in a tank. She was a woman in the tradition of Boadicea and the first Elizabeth, and she was not going to get herself up in battl...