The dispute in the Church of England over welfare reform intensified last night as the former Archbishop of Canterbury was dismissed as a "Thatcherite yesterday's man" by a prominent cleric.

Former Thatcherite minister Lord Tebbit is among a group of peers trying to save legal aid for children's medical negligence cases.

As soon as the news about 3M's funding of Adam Werritty emerged, it became clear that Liam Fox was going to have to go. Downing Street had no desire to be seen to be pushing this Thatcherite out of the Cabinet, but its test has always been that Werritty could not have been receiving money from companies with any interest in defence. Once that line was crossed, Fox was always going to have to ...

ONCE a committed Thatcherite, the Scottish Tory party's deputy leader Murdo Fraser, below, yesterday put himself forward as the candidate for future change.

MICHAEL Forsyth famously coined the term "Tartan Tax" as he campaigned against the setting up of a Scottish parliament.

It was inevitable when the Tories returned to power that Thatcherite's like 'lord' Young, whom we thought we had seen the last of years ago, would re-emerged in government circles, even if his stay at the top table was mercifully cut short after he went off message and blabbed. “People in the country today, they have never had it so good.”Of course when he said, &ld...

George Osborne’s spending review is neither a Thatcherite assault on ‘the vulnerable’ nor a sparkling solution to our economic woes.

Osborne's big announcement yesterday is potentially a big win for Labour, as long as they get their message coordinated and aggressively pushed out there. The trick will be to use the child benefits cut as a precusor to frame their opposition to the Coalition's cuts more broadly. There are several charges that could stick...

Simon Hughes led the angry response to David Cameron's thoughts on social housing, and now he's stirring it up again. In an interview with the South London Press – picked up by Sunder Katwala over at Next Left – the Lib Dem deputy leader has attacked the Right to Buy, saying that local councils should decide whether to offer it or not. Given the Thatcherite roots of the polic...

I was out drinking with a couple of Tory councillors the other day. This is not a frequent occurrence and has become no more frequent since the Coalition. I learned that one of their acquaintance had resigned her Conservative Party membership because of the Coalition. She is a Thatcherite. The days and weeks after the