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2 days ago · John Swinney blames Margaret Thatcher for Scotland’s woes in last desperate election shot First Ministers relies on despairing excuses rather than acknowledge the litany of failures from his ...
10 hours ago · In 2002, Margaret Thatcher said her greatest achievement was ‘Tony Blair and New Labour’. David Cameron could say the same about Keir Starmer The Conservative party has spent the past 14 years ...
5 days ago · Former prime ministers have been entitled to payments from the Public Duty Costs Allowance (PDCA) since it was introduced in 1991 to help Margaret Thatcher adapt to life after running the country ...
3 days ago · Premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher 's term as the prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 4 May 1979 when she accepted an invitation of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government, and ended on 28 November 1990 upon her resignation. She was elected to the position in 1979, having led the Conservative Party since 1975, and won ...
3 days ago · In 1979 Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had been voted into power in the United Kingdom on a largely law-and-order ticket. Thatcher led an administration of the radical Right, close in politics to Ronald Reagan’s Republicanism in the United States, bound to laissez-faire economics, to incentives for work, cutting back on the welfare state, and a heavily punitive response to ...
10 hours ago · LONDON (AP) — Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years. Many analysts believe it will be one of the country’s most consequential elections since the end of World War II. Ahead of the July 4 vote, The Associated Press takes a […]
1 day ago · Finchley and Golders Green, Margaret Thatcher’s old patch, offers the ultimate test of whether voters accept Sir Keir Starmer’s case that Labour has changed. After the antisemitism toxicity of the Jeremy Corbyn years, its candidate Sarah Sackman insists that the party has now reverted to being a “safe space” for Jewish voters.
