The British Leyland era at Longbridge became a byword for wildcat walkouts, union militancy and industrial chaos – and helped clear the path to political power for Margaret Thatcher. Just two ...

Thatcher also said her government could no longer carry British Leyland financially. Together, Leyland`s car and truck divisions lost more than $100 million in each of the last two years.

Margaret Thatcher, born ten years after the publication of “The Rainbow,” in the neighboring county of Lincolnshire, ... British Leyland, the automotive conglomerate that included Jaguar, ...

Margaret Thatcher was the nemesis of the trade union movement. Together with miners' leader Arthur Scargill, she managed to destroy the power of the trade unions for almost a generation. Only now, ...

Margaret Thatcher is "still adored and revered" by the Conservative Party, "grudgingly respected" by Labour prime ministers past and present, and "despised and reviled on the left and in many ...

In 1984, the IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, England, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The bomb detonated on Oct. 12, 1984 — the aftermath ...

The Victoria and Albert Museum has changed its labelling of Margaret Thatcher as a “contemporary villain” alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden after facing a backlash. Lucy Frazer, the ...

Margaret Thatcher’s predecessor as leader of the Conservative Party, Ted Heath, was dismissive of her leadership credentials because she was a woman, a gathering of Tory-linked figures has heard.