Government climbdown on welfare reveals the perpetually problematic relationship between Labour’s front and backbench ...

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first woman prime minister, and a controversial historical figure. Skip to main content. ... Her first role as a top government official came in 1970, ...

Margaret Thatcher’s ­government deliberately delayed the pit closures which caused the Miners’ Strike until after the 1983 election, ­bombshell documents reveal. The papers, from the ...

For Thatcher, 1975 was a busy year. She was fighting off the nickname of "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher" for her just-ended time in government as education secretary, when she ended a popular ...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1996. Reuters/Kieran Doherty The National Archives just released a bundle of secret government papers, many of which are from Margaret Thatcher's ...

Margaret Thatcher obituary: From Opposition to Government and battles over the economy. Whether the Conservatives would have won an overall majority in a general election in the autumn of 1978 is ...

Margaret Thatcher was a British politician who, alongside Ronald Reagan, helped usher in the era of neoliberalism. She was elected prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1979, becoming the first ...

LONDON — Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister and uncompromisingly conservative "Iron Lady" of the 1980s, has died. She was 87. She died Monday following a stroke. "We've ...

Margaret Thatcher’s government sold $115 billion worth of state-owned assets. With the election of a Conservative government in 1979, Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the UK ...

The writer of a new two-part series about a television interview involving Margaret Thatcher says political conversation has "changed a lot over the past 10 years". James Graham penned Brian and ...

When Margaret Thatcher described Tony Blair and New Labour as her greatest achievement, she hadn’t been introduced to then Queen’s Council Sir Keir Starmer. But he and his senior shadow ...