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...Sir Keir Starmer, head of the UK’s opposition Labour party, has heaped praise on Margaret Thatcher in a pitch to Tory voters, provoking a backlash from both leftwing activists and the Conservative party....
...Dame Margaret Beckett, the UK’s first female foreign secretary, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, one of Britain’s highest honours, for her five decades in frontline politics...
...Lucy Fisher That’s a very good point, about the vetting....
...And you know, you’d probably say that Margaret Thatcher’s mission was to try to get the government off the back of the people....
...While Hunt appeared at the Despatch Box on the anniversary of Margaret Thatcher resigning 33 years earlier, Tory figures highlighted that the Autumn Statement appeared to owe more to the legacy of another...
...Lucy Fisher Oh, I think that’s . . . Miranda Green Possible, but not probable. Robert Shrimsley Yeah. Lucy Fisher Yeah....
...And Margaret Thatcher wanted the whole country to take part in capitalism and buy shares in this soon to be privatised industries that feature people who are going “Tell Sid, tell Sid”....
...Starmer has been trying to woo former Conservatives in recent months, including by praising Margaret Thatcher for “setting loose Britain’s natural entrepreneurialism”....
...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...
...A second edition of Margaret Klein Salamon’s Facing The Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth (New Society Publishers, £14.99/$19.99) came out last July, as activist groups funded...
...lucy.fisher@ft.com Letters in response to this article: Party conferences keep politics on an even keel / From Tim Gordon, Chief Executive, Liberal Democrats (2012-2017), London N1, UK Conference is...
...suffering from a housing shortage that has been exacerbated, according to analysts, by the mass sell-off of former council houses through the “Right to Buy” programme initiated by then Tory prime minister Margaret...
...A by-election has been triggered in Scotland after voters in the seat of Rutherglen and Hamilton West pushed to remove the incumbent MP, Margaret Ferrier....
...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...
...Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, right back to Margaret Thatcher....
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...To ram home the “pro-motorist message” Sunak — whose preferred prime ministerial mode of transport is the helicopter — posed for a picture in ex-premier Margaret Thatcher’s iconic official car, an old Rover...
...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...
...Speaking at a Centre for Policy Studies conference dedicated to the late prime minister Margaret Thatcher, Hunt said higher productivity and growth would “put us on a sustainable path to lower taxes”....
...On Tuesday, we got the results of the count of the recall petition launched against Margaret Ferrier....
...Lucy Fisher Well, I’m sure he is. I agree....
...Lucy Fisher Has your phone been buzzing with people furious that they’re not on it? Jim Pickard (Laughs) Lucy Fisher Let’s take that as a yes and move on, shall we?...
...Lucy Fisher has a fun story about the Liberal Democrats’ election preparation and the various crises they are war-gaming....
...Think of Liza Minnelli, Michael Douglas, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Lee Curtis and many others....
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