When Nicholas Ridley, the arch-Thatcherite transport secretary, introduced laws to privatise Britain’s bus network in 1985, ...

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 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 ...

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

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’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 ...

At her death on April 8, 2013, she was the Right Honorable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC, but at her birth on Oct. 13, 1925 — 98 years ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher accused the Labour government of losing control. Now, the same charge is being leveled by Labour against the Conservatives. By Mark Landler ...

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 ...