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Conservative party chairman and minister with a caustic wit who played a key role during Margaret Thatcher’s time in power

Chairman of British Rail at a time of major challenges, including the opening of the Channel tunnel and the approach of privatisation

Former deputy PM says Trump’s looming return to White House means UK must revive links with Brussels

Exclusive: The chair of a joint EU-UK delegation has outlined the bloc’s aims for closer ties in the wake of the US election

Sir Keir Starmer is pursuing a ‘reset’ of relations with the bloc but concerns persist about a lack of urgency

It’s a huge challenge, as shown in Ebbsfleet, where one such new town was launched by George Osborne in 2015, but now only has 3,000 or so of the 12,500 promised homes

He was suspended in May 2019 after saying he would vote for the Liberal Democrats at the European elections

As President of the Board of Trade in the 1990s, Michael Heseltine famously declared his intention to intervene "before breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner" to support British business. And this is not a bad description of today's King's Speech, the first under a Labour government for 14 years (technically, the first…

Letter: Steve Leach and Colin Copus disagree with the former Conservative minister’s suggestion that more than 200 local authorities should be abolished