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The Labour politician and shadow chancellor of the exchequer said it would be ‘foolish not to recognise’ Thatcher’s influence on a generation of women

Margaret Thatcher’s ‘property-owning democracy’ project drove a mass sell-off of social housing. After more than 40 years of soaring prices and growing inequality, is it time to change course?

The former chancellor’s daughter, TV cook Nigella Lawson, was joined by senior Conservatives at the service of thanksgiving for her father.

The prolific paedophile and predator is played by Steve Coogan in the shocking TV series; this is the real story of the disgraced presenter’s life and crimes, and how they eventually came to light

Jonathan Lynn’s new play finds the political double act in their 80s, in a suitable final chapter to a magnificent comic project

Labour’s conference in Liverpool, almost certainly its last such annual gathering before the general election, has been anchored by Sir Keir Starmer’s promise today of a “decade of national renewal”. Inevitably, however, the domestic policy pledges made by the Labour leader and his colleagues have been overshadowed by the horrendous…

Labour faces calls from party faithful to follow through on original plan for nationalisation

Ready, steady and go for the shadow chancellor: Rachel Reeves took to the stage in Liverpool in sombre navy trouser suit, a stern figure with glossy helmet of hair. Her message was that Labour, the old party of tax and spend, had been reborn as bearer of a “war on…

Rachel Reeves echoed Margaret Thatcher as she vowed to go after those who profited from the “carnival of waste” during the Covid-19 pandemic.