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4 hours ago · In 2002, Margaret Thatcher said her greatest achievement was ‘Tony Blair and New Labour’. David Cameron could say the same about Keir Starmer The Conservative party has spent the past 14 years ...
4 hours ago · It was unthinkable that, in 1984 – during the conservative rule of Margaret Thatcher – a song about a young gay boy would become a success in the United Kingdom. But the tune – which was accompanied by a music video that portrayed him – went even further than that: it became a classic that touched the lives of several generations
4 hours ago · This is the seventh project led by Seldon, dating from Margaret Thatcher, probing the difference that governments make, shorn of the distortion of party politics and the ephemera of day-to-day ...
4 hours ago · When Margaret Thatcher resigned as both Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party in November 1990, her successor was Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major.This marked a shift in the tone of the show, with the writers moving from the Punch and Judy style to more subtle and atmospheric sketches, notably a series in which an awkward Major and wife Norma ate peas for dinner.
4 hours ago · Unless Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair is its victor, British democracy is mostly swings and roundabouts, or so the Conservatives had better hope. Continuity, though, ought not to be confused with ...
1 day ago · Nasa on Friday did not set a return date until testing on the ground was complete and said the astronauts were safe. “We’re not in any rush to come home,” said Nasa’s commercial crew programme manager Steve Stich. Veteran Nasa test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the orbiting ...
4 hours ago · The marketing push was created by the advertising agency M&C Saatchi, whose founders, Maurice Saatchi and his brother, Charles, developed the “Labour isn’t working” slogan that helped carry Margaret Thatcher to victory in 1979 at their previous agency, and went on to launch the Tony Blair “demon eyes” campaign in the run-up to the ...
