Margaret Thatcher privately praised Tony Blair over his support for the US after the 9/11 attacks, according to newly released government files.
“You will have found, as I did, that just as one international crisis subsides, another soon threatens,” she wrote in a handwritten note dated 4 April 2002, seven months after al-Qaida passenger jet hijackers carried out four suicide attacks, including on the Twin Towers in New York City.