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...Williams was first elected as a Labour MP for Hitchin in 1964 and represented the Hertfordshire seat until she was defeated in the Conservatives’ election victory in 1979 that brought Margaret Thatcher to...
...Some even identified the split as the lifeline that kept Margaret Thatcher in power for another two terms....
...A companion double-LP stretched back to the Copper Family, Lead Belly and Margaret Barry. Both book and album were influential, which is to say that 1975 was not their time....
...Consider, too, how many black singers there were, and not minor artists, but A-list celebrities — Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Simon Estes, Jessye...
...“Its great advantage is its solidity,” said the journalist Shirley Conran at the time. “It doesn’t shake and charge about all over the room. It hums efficiently, instead of clattering.”...
...The disastrous 1983 general election, in which Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives routed Michael Foot, nearly broke Labour and led to the leadership of Neil Kinnock and the slow process of modernisation that...
...A night out at Cats with Princess Margaret and her children causes much excitement. The name dropping in this memoir can be eye-watering, although publishers often demand it . . ....
...As a writer, Machado ranks alongside Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood, and she brings all her (there should be a woman’s word to replace “mastery”) formidable skills to bear in this tale of the rent fabric...
...No one would ever have hired Margaret Thatcher to be a nurse in a hospice....
...The splitters were wiped out and saw Margaret Thatcher’s Tories win two more elections with huge majorities. But viewing it through this prism is a mistake....
...The great Labour schism prompted by the “Gang of Four” — Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers — on that day has a newfound resonance at Westminster....
...The Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher won the election in 1979. After elevation to the peerage Healey remained an astute follower of politics....
...Other main contenders included Ms Fry, Louise Brough and Margaret Dupont — and then “Little Mo” came along....
...threatened by Margaret Thatcher....
...“Margaret Thatcher tried that, and look what happened to her.” He was right. The poll tax sank the Iron Lady....
...“In the 1970s big business and bankers were seen as victims of unions, now people see consumers as the victims,” Shirley Williams, a former Labour minister in the 1970s who is now a Lib Dem peer....
...Other guests include favourites of Thatcher including the composer Lord Lloyd-Webber, the novelist Lord Archer, and the singer Dame Shirley Bassey....
...“He was not thought to have much of a political future, and therefore very few European leaders were interested in meeting him,” said Mr Shirley....
...At the start of the year, Margaret Thatcher, then into her third year as prime minister, was leading an unpopular and uncertain government, one struggling to bring Britain out of recession and grappling...
...Margaret Thatcher, not known as a connoisseur of fine art, attended the opening....
...Meryl Streep remarked that she had tried, in the film The Iron Lady, to capture what it was about Margaret Thatcher that aroused such “venom”. Venom is the right word....
...Margaret Thatcher was in her mid-50s when she formed her first cabinet. Since then, only Gordon Brown has assumed prime ministerial office at a comparable age....
...Rodgers and Hammerstein muse Shirley Jones brought her son out to sing half her show at her recent London concert and nobody minded....
...Best of all though is Moira Buffini’s Handbagged, a surreal comic look at the tense relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen....
...Nielsen was haunted by the thought he could have done more with his great running gag, “Don’t call me Shirley.” “I should have kept changing it, made it develop,” he almost agonised to me....
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