Last week saw the 50th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming leader of the Conservative Party. Her election as Prime ...

The influence of Britain's first female prime minister is still felt half a century after she became Conservative leader ...

The Iron Lady, who led the UK government from 1979 to 1990, was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. Over the years since, she has been portrayed many times on screen ...

Alongside the likes of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most memorable British leaders ...

They both face(d) the challenge of being a woman in a man’s world. Thatcher was hugely helped by the Soviets calling her the ‘Iron Lady’ in 1977. Badenoch needs a similar moment in order to cement her ...

Margaret Thatcher’s years in power are to be turned into an opera ...

The hour-long episodes of the Channel 4 docudrama see Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan play the Iron Lady and former Labour MP and broadcast journalist Brian Walden. From opposing political ...

In 1976 a headline in the Soviet army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda ran: 'Zheleznaya Dama Ugrozhayet' or 'The Iron Lady Wields Threats'. Thatcher was known as no such thing but delighted in the name ...

Centrist Italia Viva (IV) party leader and Senator Matteo Renzi, a former prime minister, said Wednesday that Premier Giorgia Meloni was not an iron lady but a butter man who was strong with the weak ...

IT’S worth remembering, at least once a year, ­that Channel 4 owes its entire existence to Margaret Thatcher, who created the network in 1982. In the process, she helped feed everyone who works ...