One difference between Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Brown is that famously Margaret Thatcher did not believe in U-turns.
It might not be a feud to rival Heath vs Thatcher or Blair vs Brown but the row between Conservative MPs Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch is in the tradition of great Westminster spats.
But they may be reassured that all four, under first Lady Thatcher and then Mr Blair and Mr Brown, went along with the reforms they now deplore.
But a Policy Exchange poll suggested that people in the north hold Margaret Thatcher in higher esteem as a PM than Gordon Brown.
Boris now takes on the role once played by Michael Heseltine to Margaret Thatcher, Michael Portillo to John Major or Gordon Brown to Tony Blair.
Even Gordon Brown, who as a young Labour MP wrote an anti-Thatcher polemic called "where there's greed", was delighted to welcome her on the steps of Number 10 when he became prime minister.
Alongside Gordon Brown in Westminster Abbey were former prime ministers Sir John Major and Baroness Thatcher.
Instead, Tony Blair seems to have become more hostile to it either because he is accused in Britain of sacrificing the Thatcher money or, as France's Jacques Chirac suggested this week, because his chancellor, Gordon Brown, has insisted on a tougher line.
The game-playing exposed Mr Brown's efforts to appear ecumenical the great Tory-hater taking tea with Lady Thatcher, for instance as so much cynical manipulation.
Her other successors in No 10 - Sir John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - praised her strength of character and political purpose, while Labour leader Ed Miliband said Lady Thatcher had been a "unique figure" who "reshaped the politics of a whole generation".
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