Helen Szamuely is less than impressed with the new Conservative Party leader:

Somebody obviously told him half-way through the leadership campaign that maybe, just maybe, the Conservative Party should be for individual freedom and small government, so those words did occasionally crop up in his later speeches but these were overshadowed by the mellifluous sound of “modernization”, “forward looking”, “compassion” and so on. And we are none the wiser as to what any of it means.

Putting everything together: Cameron’s background, for which he feels he has to apologize, if half-jokingly, his lack of experience (his career has been entirely in politics except for a few years as Director of Corporate Affairs in a media group), his emphasis on the personal in politics, his references to the state as the purveyor of the compassion that he is so keen on, one is left with a cold feeling. The Conservative Party is going to be led by somebody Margaret Thatcher would have unhesitatingly described as a “wet”.

Emphasis mine. Note also that Lady Thatcher is in hospital. It's not clear how serious this is.

When more than half the voters work for the state, directly or indirectly, it's a lose lose proposition to campaign on shrinking the size of government in general.

Lady Thatcher is out of hospital with a clean bill of health.

One of my supervisors had taken a trip to England earlier this summer and while visiting the Royal Gardens bumped in Margaret Thatcher and her security entourage. He showed us several pictures of their attempt to play the paparazzi and follow her around the garden the whole time. There was one where she was looking straight at them appearing rather perturbed.