He claims to not have what it takes to be leader, but only the justice secretary stands a chance of giving the Thatcherites what they crave.
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The truth is out on how the media’s reporting of the Hillsborough disaster impacted the public perception of the tragedy, but could the same be said for the British miners’ strike?
Why does the UK get money back on what it sends to the EU budget?
The only problem with an appeal to fairness is there is no single understanding of what the word means.
This referendum is not about Europe – it’s about what it means to be a British Conservative.
Thatcher’s right to buy scheme had some unexpected consequences for society’s most disadvantaged citizens.
Tony Abbott’s Margaret Thatcher Lecture, delivered in London on Tuesday night, provides a fitting epitaph to his government.
If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
Every culture needs heroes. So when our political system becomes incapable of giving us any, where does that leave us?
As British prime minister from 1970 to 1974, Heath took the UK into Europe.
The former PM is by far the biggest name to get caught up in the paedophile inquiry.
She might now seem rather light-entertainment, but as the only female act to make a success out of ‘Merseybeat’ and go on to an ITV career as a female powerhouse, she deserves more.
The frontrunner for the Labour leadership has some good ideas that were rejected by voters when they elected Margaret Thatcher.
It’s to be yet another week of crisis, inspection and introspection for the forever under pressure BBC as the government is set to publish a green paper on Thursday, which will, the Guardian says, signal…
British orgainsed labour has remained relevant despite the onslaught suffered during the 1980s, but it lacks the institutional structure that would make the future secure.
The Conservatives have long dreamed of a property-owning democracy but this version will not solve the UK’s modern housing nightmare.
From campaign buses to photo ops, the late Tory leader set the tone for the 2015 election.
Jimmy Ruffin’s confection of choice was the Eccles cake. The soul singer who definitively diagnosed the emotional condition of broken heartedness on one of Motown’s all-time classic singles was especially…
As Israel’s Operation Protective Edge began to draw more vocal international criticism, the supposedly staunchly pro-Israel Conservative party saw the beginnings of a revolt: a number of David Cameron’s…
Seventy years on from its passage into law, the Education Act of 1944 is often remembered as a monument to political consensus – the art of the possible, in the words of its chief architect, R A “Rab…
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