So his envy of Margaret Thatcher is quite understandable given that he is such an unpleasant nonentity himself. What is urgently required this week is some proper perspective on Baroness Thatcher and ...

Your Letters Pages on Friday featured contributions from Geordie Fergusson and Ian Waugh focused on the mechanism and validity of past and ...

The Attorney General is facing fresh scrutiny for blocking Britain from sharing intelligence with the US in a major terrorism ...

The Independent’s political editor White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg were at the Hay Adams hotel opposite the White ...

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne raised the importance ... Rachel Reeves compared herself to ‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher ...

When, in November 1990, the news came through that John Major had won the Tory leadership contest and was to succeed Margaret Thatcher ... Old friend Baroness Blatch told Walker of the 'mournful ...

Starmer hits back at Musk after ‘constructive’ Trump talks as PM eyes Poland security pact - Sir Keir Starmer said he had ...

He had a wonderful baritone praised by no one less discerning than the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s famously politically incorrect husband, Sir Denis. We made twelve major international trips ...

Harriet Walter never met Margaret Thatcher, but she is musing gleefully on how awkward an encounter between the two may have proved. “I think she would have detested me,” she says happily.

Rachel Reeves has hit out at critics who "don't want to see her succeed" amid soaring UK borrowing costs and slumped growth. The Chancellor said she wouldn't let criticism over her decision to ...