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Miliband: ‘Thatcher was right’… but not often
Sounding prime ministerial the Labour leader seems to find paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher less troublesome than her successor David Cameron.
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As secret government papers released by the national archives shed fresh light on the 1980s, Channel 4 News asks for your memories of the decade.
MPs and Amnesty International raise concerns over the UK’s approval of export licences for the sale of arms, worth over £12bn, to countries with questionable human rights records, including Sri Lanka.
For entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, Margaret Thatcher’s premiership helped make Britain great again. But for writer Naseem Khan, life under the Iron Lady inspired antipathy and a sense of injustice.
The biggest political funeral since Sir Winston Churchill’s death almost half a century ago is held for Margaret Thatcher at St Paul’s cathedral, with readings from politicians and family.
As details of the guests at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral emerge, the decision of the Queen to attend remains controversial, as does the scale of the ceremony.
Margaret Thatcher spawned a wave of protest songs. But then came 1984’s Do They Know It’s Christmas which gave miners’ benefit records an air of axe-grinding and pettiness, writes Bob Stanley.
Sounding prime ministerial the Labour leader seems to find paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher less troublesome than her successor David Cameron.
Prime Minister David Cameron tells the Commons that his Conservative predecessor Margaret Thatcher was an “extraordinary leader and woman” who made Britain great again.
Baroness Thatcher is to be buried on Wednesday 17 April. The funeral will be attended by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, and dignitaries from around the world.
As foreign leaders send tributes to Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday following a stroke, there are celebrations in Brixton and Glasgow by those who continue to oppose the “Iron Lady”.
Margaret Thatcher was a controversial figure at home and abroad. So how has her death been received across the world?
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?
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.
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.