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Tory party must take its time and learn from the example of Thatcher to regain power
In the two Parliaments following 1997 the Conservative Party came up with precious few new ideas. By contrast, in 1975 the newly installed Margaret Thatcher and her lieutenants, facing similarly ...
Can Kemi Badenoch lead the UK’s Conservatives out of the wilderness?
Kemi Badenoch has been elected as the first Black leader of the UK Conservative Party, marking a shift to a more conservative ...
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Thatcherism spread far and wide but with a hollowed middle class, for how long?
She joined the Conservative Party and stood for Parliament in the 1950 election (she was the youngest candidate ever), and married businessman Denis Thatcher in 1951. Margaret Thatcher ...
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Margaret Thatcher: How she confounded Tories who ridiculed idea of her as PM
Rejected Thatcher statue plan revived The celebrities 'banned' from Thatcher’s party Margaret Thatcher dies ... the society in which they live". The Conservative grandee, who was a junior ...
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Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered
The Conservative Party leadership race has entered its final stage, with Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick competing to lead both the party and the opposition. As voting concluded on 31 October, I ...
MercoPress5y
Margaret Thatcher, a turning point in British politics
Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s first ... dispensed with her enemies both inside and outside the Conservative party, tamed the unions and unleashed the power of the market ...