On 5 February 1979, Thatcher scored a surprise victory over the incumbent Ted Heath in the first round ... John Smith challenged her economic approach. Tony Blair invited her for a private ...

Thatcher’s victory was unexpected, not least because she represented a rightward shift in Tory politics — even if anyone ...

It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party – but the story of who was behind her drastic ...

Alongside the likes of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most memorable British leaders ...

Donald Trump has just reconstructed the world order. He has restored Russia to the status of global superpower which it had ...

It was in an almost entirely negative context in which Margaret Thatcher, the 49-year-old MP for Finchley and, until a year earlier, education secretary in Edward Heath’s ministry, was elected ...

Tony Blair had arrived in Downing Street as the harbinger of Cool Britannia after 17 years of Conservative rule, the first occupant of No 10 in modern times to have a young family. His chameleon ...

Former Labour prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair have led tributes to "working class hero" Lord Prescott at his funeral. The great and the good of the Labour Party remembered the UK's ...

Ed Miliband’s claim that net zero will create hundreds of thousands industrial jobs is vastly overstated, Sir Tony Blair’s think tank has warned. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change ...

Tony Blair has claimed that British people will accept less privacy in exchange for greater government efficiency, as he pushed for national digital ID cards to be rolled out. The former Prime ...