JUST when they thought everything was going smoothly she emerged from the past again.
The economy is looking up, MPs were returning from the Easter recess but then the ghost of prime ministers past loomed up, and at her most outspoken condemned the British, the European and the whole Western approach to the Bosnian conflict.
Margaret Thatcher's own bombshell came on BBC television news at 6pm on Tuesday - it could not have been timed more perfectly - and tore right through the heart of government in the strongest language we have ever seen her use. She had, no doubt, consulted wisely, especially in the US where her call to arm the Bosnian Muslims has reached to the heart.
She blamed the European Community for its prevarication over the past year - her old bete noir showing itself again. But much, much more significant was the vitriol for her own Government, for the men who, by and large, she appointed to positions of high office. The Prime Minister John Major was particularly stung by Lady Thatcher's suggestion that Britain needed a Prime Minister like Churchill with a ''lion heart'' - the inference being that he had anything but that.
Once again the words of Margaret Thatcher are dominating Westminster. There are many in the Conservative party who now detest what she stands for, but there is no denying the popular mood in the country which looks back on her period in office of being at least a time of certainties rather than vacillation and one government slip after another.
There are even suggestions that her time might come again if John Major continues to founder over Maastricht. After all who is there around in the Commons to replace him? Lady Thatcher demonstrated her resolve later on US television saying: ''We cannot just let things go on like this, it is evil. If these governments are not moved by the position of ethnic cleansing in Europe, two million refugees, mass graves being found in Croatia, then they should be.