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Byline: By, Sophie Huskisson Kemi Badenoch has been repeatedly compared to Margaret Thatcher since being elected Tory leader -and a former Tory minister has explained why. Edwina Currie, who served [...]

The thing to understand about Kemi Badenoch is that, for all her manifest shortcomings, she is not stupid. Over the last few months, the incoming leader of the Conservative Party [...]

Kemi Badenoch is the woman who always wanted to wear Margaret Thatcher's 'trousers'. As a child growing up in Nigeria's patriarchal society, she saw Thatcher as her heroine; a self-made [...]

Byline: By, Ffion Lewis Chancellor Rachel Reeves appeared to mock the Conservatives on the opposition benches with echoes o Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her first budget since the Labour [...]

Keir Starmer doesn't like faces looking down at him, but I love them - even bad ones What do Margaret Thatcher, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Gladstone have in common? [...]

SIR GEOFFREY PATTIE, who has died aged 88, served Margaret Thatcher ably as a defence and industry minister; but he was denied promotion to her Cabinet by an increasingly shrill [...]

Byline: By, By Helen Corbett PA Political Correspondent & Lawrence Matheson Margaret Thatcher's resuming the Tory conference, just hours after an IRA bomb attack targeted her, has been likened to [...]

On October 12, 1984, a bomb ripped through Brighton's Grand Hotel, intended to kill Margaret Thatcher. The bomber, IRA operative Patrick Magee, timed the device to go off during the [...]

Byline: Jack Seale Star Rating: 4 stars Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher is a documentary with a gap in the middle. Its main interviewee is the Brighton bomber [...]

The Brighton Bomb Radio 4, 1.45pm This week marks the 40th anniversary of the IRA's attempted assassination of Margaret Thatcher. In this 12-part series, Glenn Patterson tells the story of [...]

BOMBING BRIGHTON: THE PLOT TO KILL THATCHER BBC Two, 9pm On October 12, 1984, a bomb ripped through Brighton's Grand Hotel, intended to kill Margaret Thatcher. The bomber, IRA operative [...]

On Tuesday, Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick reportedly elicited shocked gasps from the audience during an on-stage interview at the Conservative Party conference. What prompted such reverberations from the party [...]

Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher BBC2, 9pm On October 12, 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army attempted to eliminate key figures of the British government, including Prime Minister [...]

Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher BBC2, 9pm On October 12, 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army attempted to eliminate key figures of the British government, including Prime Minister [...]

Byline: Peter Walker Senior political correspondent Audiences at Conservative party conferences are not easily surprised, but Robert Jenrick's revelation drew audible gasps: yes, he said, his daughter's middle name was [...]

Byline: Kenan Malik Conservatism, the late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote, emerged into the modern world as 'a kind of 'yes but...'' response to liberalism. Conservatives, he observed, believe, like liberals, [...]

Byline: Peter Jay PETER JAY, who has died aged 87, was, as a 37-year-old journalist, billed by Time magazine as one of 150 future world leaders; but the early brilliance [...]

THE RIGHT REVEREND MARK SANTER, who has died aged 87, was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in controversial circumstances in 1987. The Crown Appointments Commission had nominated the Rt Rev Jim [...]

We oldies all remember the terrorist takeover of Iran's London embassy at 16 Princes Gate. This started on Wednesday 30 April 1980. There was just one member of the Met's [...]

Byline: Polly Toynbee I crept into the inaugural Westminster meeting of The Future of the Right, a Policy Exchange project from a bygone age of Tory ascendancy. I admit it: [...]

Byline: By, Lizzy Buchan Keir Starmer has revealed the true reason he moved a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from his study. The Prime Minister sparked fury from right-wingers by pulling [...]

Byline: Peter Walker Keir Starmer has said that he ordered a portrait of Margaret Thatcher to be moved out of his Downing Street study not out of dislike for her, [...]

Byline: David Mitchell All the recent discussion of the pub garden smoking ban the government says it's considering reminded me, I was surprised to discover, of Margaret Thatcher. A divisive [...]

It's beginning to look as if the Tories may elect as their leader Robert Jenrick ( Report, 5 September ), a man who ordered the painting over of cartoon characters [...]

Byline: Simon Jenkins What can Keir Starmer learn from Tony Blair? He hit the ground running in handling last month's rightwing riots over immigration. He rolled the pitch for Rachel [...]

SIR SHRIDATH RAMPHAL, who has died aged 95, was Commonwealth secretary-general from 1975 to 1990, when he got on famously badly with Margaret Thatcher over the contentious issue of South […]

What's all the fuss about ( Keir Starmer 'gets rid of' 10 Downing Street's Thatcher portrait, 29 August )? I'm constantly moving pictures around in my house. It's a cheaper [...]

Byline: Mark Dolan She did it. And as she settles into a post previously held by Sir Robert Peel, Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Thatcher, Kemi Badenoch has been burdened [...]

Byline: Daniel Martin, Deputy Political Editor Kemi Badenoch is a lot like Margaret Thatcher, one of her former ministers has said. Lord Forsyth said he saw in Mrs Badenoch some [...]

Byline: Sophia Money-Coutts What do Margaret Thatcher, Sir Walter Raleigh and William Gladstone have in common? Time's up; they've all recently been removed from the walls of No 10. In [...]

George Negus, Media, Margaret thatcher, Foreign Correspondent, Journalist, interviw, politics, ABC, SBS, 60 Minutes, Channel 9, Channel 10 Media When George Negus finished grilling then-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in [...]

Byline: Tony Sewell Conservative members like myself looked at the Tory leadership over the last 3 years and recalled the scene in Orwell's Animal Farm where the animals looked from [...]

Byline: Dominic Penna, Political Correspondent Sir Keir Starmer has taken down portraits of Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh that were on display in Downing Street, The Telegraph can reveal. [...]

Byline: Philip Johnston I remember the silence. The bomb went off at almost 3am, so the usual cacophony of emergency sirens was not necessary as dozens of fire engines, ambulances [...]

Byline: David Davies The Conservative Party stands at the biggest crossroads in its modern history. The country faces major challenges at home and abroad that need fresh thinking and bold [...]

Byline: Camilla Tominey, Associate Editor The former Telegraph and Spectator editor Charles Moore is in the studio with Camilla to discuss the future of conservatism ahead of the Conservative Party [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Peter Jay, who has died aged 87, was, as a 37-year-old journalist, billed by Time magazine as one of 150 future world leaders; but the early brilliance [...]