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Sat 11 Nov 2002'Angel of Death' who idolised ThatcherTall, stooped, lugubrious Sir George Gardiner, who died last weekend aged 67, was a sometime hard-right British journalist who became MP for Reigate from 1974 to 1997.He was also, in the last days of Conservative government, the leading conspirator among "Maggie's militants".