The New Stateman has a Thatcher Special this week - yes, you did read that correctly. One of the features is a WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOU HEARD SHE HAD RESIGNED. They have edited my contribution, so I thought I'd give you the unedited version here... The night before Margaret Thatcher’s resignation, I remember having had rows with two Tory MPs who owed their seats to Margaret Thatcher, yet...

The UK Independence Party appoints a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher and John Major to run its election campaign.

Never before seen memos about an unknown Tory politician called Margaret Thatcher which singled her out for prominence because she was "very pretty" and dressed attractively have been unearthed in the BBC archive.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's historic victory in 1979. Without doubt Lady Thatcher transformed Britain from a near bankrupt, seemingly ungovernable country into a confident economic powerhouse. So here, on the 30th anniversary of her accession to power, are 30 lessons to be drawn from Margaret Thatcher. 1. Dare to seize the day - Margaret Thatcher herself said she neve...

Marking the 30th anniversary of her arrival in Downing Street John Sergeant recalls Margaret Thatcher's early days.

Where were you when Margaret Thatcher won her first General Election? I was just short of two years old, and not living in this country (though on British soil). But by 1983, I was living in a pit village in County Durham, even if not exactly as a typical inhabitant. So I bring some historical objectivity to the hysteria, largely from people my own age or younger, in this thirtieth anniversary yea...

British politics have for the last thirty years been shaped by Margaret Thatcher, Thatcherism and the legacy of Thatcher’s period in office. All of the mainstream politicians who have followed her – John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron at a UK level, and Alex Salmond and his Labour predecessors as First Minister in Scotland – have been influenced by her, and the...

Reason TV present John Blundell and the legacy of The Iron Lady: More about "The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher", posted with vodpod [

Margaret Thatcher is the greatest Conservative of all time a poll of MPs and party activists has found.

At the Conservative Conference in October 1990, Margaret Thatcher used the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch to poke fun at the LibDems' new bird logo. And who said she never had a sense of humour... In my book MARGARET THATCHER: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS & PICTURES, John Whittingdale, her former Private Secretary, writes about the traumas of introducing humour into a Thatcher speech... The ha...