Did She Talk of Statecraft?

It seems Margaret Thatcher accepted Gordon Brown's invitation for "private talks" in Downing Street, despite, according to a "friend of the former PM" talking to the Daily Express, she was very "sceptical" of him. The BBC is billing this as part of Gordon Brown's idea for a "big tent", completely juxtapose to his self-view as a "conviction politician".

Personally, I've got no problem with Baroness Thatcher talking to Brown. Maybe she was giving him some hometruths, and some ideas of her own:

• Capitalism can work well only if the fiscal and regulatory burdens on indiiduals and businesses are light ... The left - even the post-socialist left - can only be relied upon to accept this within limits: they still see nothing essentially wrong with tax and regulation as intrusions on liberty.
  
• Europe as a whole is fundamentally unreformable ... We in Britain should fundamentally reassess our relationship with the rest of the EU and renegotiate it in order to secure our national interests and sovereignty.

Somehow, I don't think he'll take much notice.