Fifty years later, early in 1975, Mrs Margaret Thatcher – as she had by then become – was chosen, to widespread surprise, as the leader of the Conservative Party. The Tories were in opposition, ...

In June 1984 Margaret Thatcher welcomed South Africa's P. W. Botha to Chequers. It was the first time a British Prime ...

The nomination paper signed by Margaret Thatcher that led to her becoming leader of the Conservative Party was found in ...

Margaret Thatcher would have "commended" Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for "taking her time and thinking carefully" about ...

As the centenary of Margaret Thatcher's birth approaches, few remember the night Britain's first female Prime Minister almost died in a fiery plane crash - just weeks after surviving the IRA's ...

Nomination papers that secured Margaret Thatcher the leadership of the Conservative Party against all the odds in 1975 have been found in a dusty garage. They belonged to Tory grandee Sir Edward du ...

That strange sound coming from their primeval swamp is the noise of two Tory dinosaurs trumpeting their disdain and ...

A sensational new book has claimed that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs during her long-standing marriage to Dennis. Mrs Thatcher's personal life is subject to new ...

What an irony that Prime Minister Theresa May’s crisis over Brexit is coming to a head on the 28th anniversary of the fall from power of Margaret Thatcher. If only the Iron Lady were alive today. She ...

This third and final auction, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s historic election as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1979, follows on from the successful ...

Speaking to the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the writer said that “multiple sources”, including former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken, had told her that Mrs Thatcher was secretly involved with a man ...