Thatcher News

The former Conservative cabinet minister Tony Newton, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, was a walking contradiction of the cynical mantra that politicians are all in it for themselves.

In 1965 Bill Wedderburn wrote his most successful book, The Worker and the Law. It began with a typical putdown: 'Most workers want nothing more of the law than that it should leave them alone' Bill Wedderburn, who has died aged 84, was the golden boy of English labour law , with a scholarship to Queens' College , Cambridge, a first in classics, a ... (more)

The then Norman St John-Stevas talks to Margaret Thatcher at the state opening of parliament in 1979.

Meryl Streep has been raking in awards and nominations for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady .

The Labour leader has made a decisive break with three decades of free-market orthodoxy.