Tory Party Conference opens with Thatcher/Delay sleaze row allegations:

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Lady Thatcher embroiled in US corruption probe
By Simon Freeman


Lady Thatcher met the under-fire Tom DeLay in 2000

The US Justice Department is seeking to question Baroness Thatcher as part of a high-level inquiry into allegations of a "flights-for-favours" corruption scandal at Congress.

Officials have asked the Metropolitan Police to question the former Tory Prime Minister over a meeting she held with leading Republican Tom DeLay in the UK in 2000.

The request, revealed in a leaked Home Office document, forms part of a probe into allegations that congressmen received free foreign holidays from lobby groups in return for influencing legislation.

A spokesman for Lady Thatcher today confirmed that police had contacted her office in order to "clarify" details of a meeting with Mr DeLay in Britain in May 2000

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1809220,00.html

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1. What could they have discussed?

I thought she was completely loony by then.

"Gibber gibber. I used to be prime minister, you know. Fnark. Rejoice, rejoice. Wurglefurgle. Have you met my dear friend general Pinochet? Arglebargle. Meep."

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2. How to get out of charges on the grounds of unfitness to face charges?

After all, Thatcher knew how Pinochet did it, and seemed to be laying the grounds for it herself, then. Maybe Delay was just wanting advice for his future legal career.

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3. Well, they all learned from the master, Ernest Saunders.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/34910.stm

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