Fifty years ago today, Mrs Thatcher became Tory leader. Here’s how her legacy has been ripped up
From tax policy to labour relations and home ownership, nigh on every reform has been dismantled by either the Left or the so ...
Government ‘must draw out lessons from Thatcher-era coal pit closures’
Tory MP David Simmonds urged the Government to learn ‘some of the lessons that we need to draw out’ of coal pit closures for ...
Whitelaw is Thatcher’s No 2 – On This Day in 1975
The meeting marks the first important Euro-occasion for Ireland since the Republic assumed presidency of the EEC on January 1 ...
Thatcherism at 50: is Iron Lady's reputation not for turning?
The influence of Britain's first female prime minister is still felt half a century after she became Conservative leader ...
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Falklands war, a turning point for Margaret Thatcher’s image and political fortunes
The crisis became a defining moment of Margaret Thatcher's premiership ... military action of the war. Mrs Thatcher was criticised in parliament and, famously, on television by a member of ...
Real reason Margaret Thatcher and Brian Walden's friendship was shattered after brutal TV interview
Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie looks at the final TV interview Margaret Thatcher gave with Brian Walden, with the former PM played by Harriet Walter ...
Labour’s parallels with Margaret Thatcher may be more than just rhetoric
Former Tory leader increased taxes before imposing reforms in deregulatory drive that Keir Starmer wants to emulate ...
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Celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death: Utterly disgraceful, or totally justifiable?
Stephen Williams, a Liberal Democrat member of Parliament from Bristol ... whether or not they were Margaret Thatcher." Most on the left have behaved honorably — and, of course, "there are ...
Brian and Maggie: Who was Brian Walden and happened to him after Thatcher interview
The new Channel 4 drama, Brian and Maggie, examines the infamous interview between the former Prime Minister and Brian Walden and how it led to her downfall ...
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The Iron Lady has her bronze statue in Parliament
Despite protests that previous prime ministers had to be dead to have a statue in Britain's Houses of Parliament Margaret Thatcher (1979/1990) unveiled her bronze statue at a ceremony Wednesday.