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...Under the Right to Buy scheme introduced by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1980, tenants of council houses can buy their homes at a discount to their market value, depending on how many years...
...Margaret Thatcher authorised a leak of secret intelligence that helped trigger the so-called Spycatcher affair that plagued the then-UK prime minister throughout her time in office, according to declassified...
...Margaret Snowdon, chair of the Pension Scams Industry Group, which seeks to stamp out malpractice, says the tax bills issued so far have mostly related to sums that the schemes paid out to victims....
...Richard Wright London NW8, UK Letter in response to this letter: Draghi’s vision of the EU is why Brexiters wanted out / From John Murray, Guildford, Surrey, UK...
...The contest in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency was sparked after a petition to recall incumbent MP Margaret Ferrier surpassed the required threshold for signatories — 10 per cent of constituents...
...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...
...And finally Portraits to Dream In — the blazing talents of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman....
...Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump? Albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, it’s a yes. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis? An emphatic no....
...was also expected to resist calls from MPs to broaden the so-called “doctrine of identification,” a key requirement in the process of establishing liability in corporate prosecutions, according to Dame Margaret...
...Robert Buckland, the Conservative former justice secretary; Dame Margaret Hodge, the veteran Labour MP; and Stuart McDonald, the Scottish National party’s justice spokesperson, are among the MPs voicing...
...No one at the BBC sought to remove the sports pundit Ian Wright, or force him to retract his remarks saying that he had admired Margaret Thatcher because she was “a strong woman” like his mother, and she...
...May 24 to 26; further information here Performance ‘Tosca’, Margaret Court Arena An epic staging of Puccini’s political thriller by the UK’s Opera North, with sopranos Nadine Benjamin and Karah Son sharing...
...Carl Wright Secretary-General Emeritus, Commonwealth Local Government Forum, Canterbury, Kent, UK...
...None other than Margaret Thatcher to whom Tory leadership candidates are falling over each other to pay homage. Richard Wright London NW8, UK...
...New Labour, it emerged, would view postwar tower blocks, what the writer Patrick Wright once dubbed “the tombstones of the welfare state”, no more favourably than Thatcher or her architectural guru, the...
...That year, Margaret Thatcher’s government imposed a principle known as “due impartiality”....
...Then came the Margaret Thatcher era. A wave of privatisations, strikes and recessions, depicted in the 1997 film The Full Monty, ensued....
...I’ve only ever read four books: The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C Douglas and Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. And now this....
...Inevitably, the debate has been dominated by the modern Conservative party’s most successful leader, Margaret Thatcher....
...First elected an MP in 1983 when Margaret Thatcher was the Conservative prime minister, Amess was an ardent champion for Southend-on-Sea, a large coastal town, and frequently called for it to be granted...
...Evans complained in his letter, which was copied to Robertson and Margaret Beckett, at the time the trade and industry secretary, that some clearances of exports were taking as long as 60 days and the Indonesians...
...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...
...Navigating asylum laws When Margaret Thatcher agreed the Sino-British Joint Declaration with Deng Xiaoping in 1984, handing back Hong Kong to China, the UK also issued Beijing with a memorandum on passports...
...He first met the future Queen in 1939 when he showed her and her sister Princess Margaret around Dartmouth Naval College, where he was studying....
...He had previously called on Mr Johnson to reconsider and warned that the Conservatives would be betraying the legacy of Margaret Thatcher if they opened the door to the Chinese manufacturer....
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