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’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 ...

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 ...

David Young (1932-2022) joined Margaret Thatcher’s government and made things happen.

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 ...

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 ...