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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in Britain passed what would come to be known as Section 28, an amendment of the Local Government Act that prevented local authorities and ...

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 ...