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In Iron Lady's line of fire

BEWARE the squiggly line – Lady Thatcher's device for showing disapproval when reading official documents.

A historian has described how she prolifically annotated paperwork.

Chris Collins, from the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust, said Lady Thatcher would underline any passage of interest, often adding a second or third line for anything particularly significant.

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