Margaret Thatcher

Andrew Adonis refers to Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech of 1988. Although this is regarded as having injected the anti-EEC/EU poison into the Conservative party from which we have suffered ever since, it is worth recalling those aspects of her speech that eurosceptics have always preferred to ignore, ...

A Scots MP has sparked a debate after she backed calls for a statue to be erected to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Jo Swinson, LibDem MP for East Dunbartonshire, said she was disappointed that Westminster Council has turned down an application for a statue of the controversial ex-PM in ...

Growing up as a little girl in the Thatcher years of the 1980s, Jo Swinson said, she had no doubt a woman could become Prime Minister. It was on this merit that the Liberal Democrat deputy leader called for a statue of Margaret Thatcher to be erected in Parliament Square, beside the 11 men already ...

When Margaret Thatcher rode into town to end all that, she had the brainwave of depleting social housing stock by selling heavily discounted council homes. That was the perfect way to free the aspirants she courted from the bondage of lifelong tenancies at very low rents (with a sprinkle of gerrymandering ...

... waiting' speech may prove familiar. MARGARET THATCHER'S speech to the Conservative party conference in 1990 may sound awfully familiar after the Iron Lady poked fun at the then “Prime Minister in waiting” Neil Kinnock. By Joe Barnes. PUBLISHED: 07:10, Wed, Feb 21, 2018 | UPDATED: 07:12, Wed, Feb 21, 2018 ...

A Liverpool Councillor has been accused of sexism during a debate over whether a statue of Margaret Thatcher should be created. Liberal Democrat leader Cllr Richard Kemp has been accused of 'misogyny' over what he said was a joke made on twitter about Mrs Thatcher - who he believes is deserving ...

Campaigners for a statue of Margaret Thatcher in Parliament Square have gained an unlikely ally in the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, who has accused those opposing it of being “pretty sexist”. Jo Swinson yesterday said the debate over the statue had been marred by a “whiff of misogyny”, ...

THE Queen was reduced to tears over her feud with Margaret Thatcher, a TV documentary claims. And Princess Margaret said it was the only time she had seen her cry. The Queen was reduced to tears over her feud with Margaret Thatcher, a new documentary. AFP. 2. The Queen was reduced to tears ...