Nine years after she was removed from office, former prime minister Margaret Thatcher still dominates British headlines.
While many despise her, there is still a considerable number who believe she represents everything that was once great about Britain.
Last week she swept into the seaside resort of Blackpool on England's northwest coast, where the opposition Conservative Party was holding its annual conference, and whipped up the party faithful with well-practised rhetoric.
A local cinema suspended screening of the slasher movie The Haunting for a night so she could address a packed audience who had come to hear her first speech to a party conference since she left office.
Dressed in her trademark blue suit with a lacquered helmet of blonde hair and a string of pearls, she displayed all the confidence you would expect from the only prime minister this century to have won three successive elections.
The party leader, William Hague, was said to be nervous about what she might say, given her tendency to not toe the party line these days.