Margaret Thatcher praised Tony Blair for supporting US after 9/11, files reveal

‘I greatly admire the resolve you are showing,’ former PM said in handwritten note released to National Archives

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.