Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Labour is co-opting the memory of former UK Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher as an unlikely weapon to help Sir Keir Starmer broaden his electoral appeal and win seats across the Tory heartlands...
...Boris Johnson is trying to do something similar when he talks about the need to give Ukraine all the arms it needs in his Mail column....
...The MP for Bromsgrove, who served Johnson as chancellor and later as health minister before quitting in July 2022, becomes a knight bachelor....
...A few Conservatives still venerate Boris Johnson’s leadership, claiming that it was he who won a landslide for their party. But did he win that election — or did Jeremy Corbyn lose it for him?...
...Margaret Thatcher accused opponents of being “frit”....
...Without that she is going to be forced into some nasty decisions on cutting spending or increasing taxes,” Johnson added....
...Case and Sedwill described Team Johnson as “wild animals”....
...When Johnson was toppled by his party and replaced by Truss, she appointed her long-standing political ally as chancellor....
...On an unusually warm and sunny December afternoon in north Tulsa, Margaret Love pulls out green onions from a well-stocked vegetable bed in her back yard....
...British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended his former boss Boris Johnson over his handling of the pandemic at the Covid inquiry....
...British prime ministers such as Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have not taken any sustained interest in water management or the utilities, he notes....
...observation may be pertinent to our own times, with a mammoth year of elections across the democratic world upon us, but it was made by James Callaghan, UK prime minister, in 1979, the year he was defeated by Margaret...
...Margaret Thatcher lost ground to the old imperial protectionist Joseph Chamberlain as the party’s source of historic inspiration....
...But it is a testament to the importance of political dress, and also its contradictions, that the most effective political dresser of recent times is also one of the worst: Boris Johnson....
...work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman....
...However, the person dismissed comparisons between the sanction Johnson may face and that meted out to MP Margaret Ferrier, formerly of the SNP but now an independent, who was suspended from the Commons this...
...Miles Johnson is an FT investigative reporter....
...Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher had tight cliques and strong convictions but both were pragmatic, immersed themselves in detail and cared about what worked....
...A marginal note Voters go to the polls today in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, which was triggered after constituents voted to remove the former Scottish National party MP Margaret Ferrier...
...The letter has also been signed by Conservative peer Baroness Margaret Eaton....
...The bickering rings true — as does the warmth — and it’s beautifully delivered by Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey in a production co-directed by Richard Wilson and Terry Johnson....
...Sunak made great play in his conference speech of how he would make a break from a “30-year-old status quo” in British politics, spanning prime ministers back to John Major, the Conservative who succeeded Margaret...
...The decision by the House of Commons standards committee — which on Thursday ruled that Margaret Ferrier’s actions in September 2020 amounted to “a conflict between her personal interest and the public interest...
...Stewart, a former foreign and international aid minister, stood unsuccessfully against Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership in 2019....
...As a student she joined the centre-left Liberal Democrats and despised Margaret Thatcher, who is now her heroine....
International Edition