Thatcher 'on good form' after scare

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The 82-year-old former Prime Minister spent the night in St Thomas' hospital after falling ill during a dinner in Westminster. Her spokesman said she had become unsteady and complained of feeling "slightly nauseous and faint".

The peer has previously suffered minor strokes, and her aides decided to take her to the nearby hospital as a "precaution". However, doctors gave her a clean bill of health after carrying out routine tests.

Messages of support for the Tory heroine flowed in today from across the political spectrum. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was sorry to hear Lady Thatcher was not well.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said: "I wish Lady Thatcher a very speedy recovery. "Whatever one's views about her, she is a towering figure."

Looking well, Lady Thatcher left the hospital guided by medical staff and took a short walk to the car from the Accident and Emergency entrance.

She stood for several moments waving to members of the press, in spite of the cold, before being driven to her Belgravia home in a dark blue Jaguar.

Charles Moore, an ex-Daily Telegraph editor and a biographer of Lady Thatcher, said she had suffered a "turn" after becoming too hot.

On the advice of doctors, Lady Thatcher very rarely speaks in public now, but does still attend a number of high-profile functions.

Despite having left Number 10 some 18 years ago, she is still a totemic figure to many on the Conservative right-wing.