Search results for ‘Margaret Thatcher’
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What Margaret Thatcher meant to you
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most divisive leaders of the 20th century and her death has been met with mixed emotions. How will the Iron Lady be remembered?
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Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first woman prime minister. And, as Gary Gibbon writes, at her death the Iron Lady leaves behind a country very different from the one she once led.
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Margaret Thatcher ‘liked people who stood up to her’
Sir John Major tells Jon Snow that he and Margaret Thatcher “had quite a lot of rows on policy” when he was a member of her government.
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Thatcher timeline: The making of Margaret Thatcher
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s formidable first woman Prime Minister, has died. Here, Channel 4 News brings you a timeline of the key events that shaped her life, and Britain’s history.
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Jimmy Savile’s ‘love’ for Margaret Thatcher
A note written by Jimmy Savile declaring his love for Margaret Thatcher shows how he tried to enlist support for a hospital where he is known to have abused vulnerable people.
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Margaret Thatcher ‘absolutely fine’ after operation
Margaret Thatcher is “absolutely fine”, a spokeswoman says, after undergoing a minor operation to have a growth removed from her bladder.
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FactCheck: Would AV have curbed Margaret Thatcher’s power?
The claim “This (Margaret Thatcher’s Government) was organised wickedness given the veneer of legitimacy by an electoral system that gave 100 per cent of Government power despite being opposed by 60 per cent of the population.” Tim Farron, President, Liberal Democrats, at AV cross-party event, 27 April 2011
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‘Thatcher decided Gorbachev was a man she could do business with’, says former adviser
Lord Charles Powell, a former foreign affairs adviser to both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, credited Mikhail Gorbachev with opening up dialogue between the USSR and the West – a crucial step in ending the old Cold War.
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‘Thatcher would be profoundly shocked by the lawbreaking,’ says her former Private Secretary on Partygate
We spoke to Caroline Slocock, who was Private Secretary to two Conservative Prime Ministers – Margaret Thatcher and John Major – and Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government, who previously worked in the No 10 policy unit.
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Redacted Sue Gray report is ‘worst of all worlds’, former Thatcher private secretary says
We spoke to Caroline Slocock, who was private secretary to two conservative Prime Ministers, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Dal Babu, a former metropolitan police chief.
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‘He will end up resigning’: Thatcher’s former private secretary says Hancock breached ministerial code
We’re joined by founder of the Conservative Home website, Tim Montgomerie, and Caroline Slocock, who was private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
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Cabinet secretary to Thatcher and Blair says ‘it’s time’ for lobbying rules to be changed
Lord Robin Butler was cabinet secretary to three prime ministers – Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
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UK needs ‘a code of ethics’ around lobbying, says former Thatcher private secretary
We are now joined by two people who have worked at the highest levels of government departments – Caroline Slocock, a former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and John Major, who’s now director of think tank Civil Exchange, and Sir Peter Westmacott, the former UK ambassador to the US, France and Turkey.
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‘Issue… is not so much Dominic Cummings, but the prime minister – he is a weak prime minister’ – Thatcher’s former private secretary
We spoke to the former Justice Secretary David Gauke and to Caroline Slocock, who served as private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
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‘It’s not a good look for a prime minister to be bullying their ministers’ – former Thatcher private secretary
Joining me is Stewart Wood who advised Gordon Brown while he was at the Treasury and when he was Prime Minister, and James Johnson was a Special Advisor to Theresa May.
