The fervent believer in the European project was also an early advocate of market economics. We send our commiserations to his widow and family.
A new analysis has ranked every one of the Party’s 13 leaders to have contested a General Election since 1906.
Thatcher’s biographer captures the extreme precariousness of her position even as she confounded the Left and scored some of her greatest triumphs.
By deliberately underplaying the Conservative beliefs that help drive him, he’s had greater room for manoeuvre in putting them into practice.
Authors have less access to papers than their predecessors, and their subjects tend to be less interesting – and are often still alive.
Plus: The UKIP London Mayoralty selection – latest rumours and plots.
While, even now, some high-minded people are getting through, many peerages are going to time-serving quangocrats.
Although the recent move to the centre ground is potentially a political goldmine, some Government policies do, in fact, hamper the progress of social mobility.
Brittany Wright doesn’t know who is responsible for education in the different parts of the United Kingdom. And it gets no better from there…
Plus: A return to Fleet Street. A venture to Edinburgh. West Ham win, David Laws loses. And: UKIP’s London members will have no say in the selection of its Mayoral Candidate.
Whoever they may elect as their new leader, it’s clear that we Conservatives must be ready to fight the battles of the 1970s and 1980s all over again.
Unshakeably devoted to ‘The Lady’, he was the greatest PPS of all time – and one of the most courageous politicians of his generation.
Even if his proposals for his party are correct, they won’t listen to him.
It is the Conservative Party which produced the first ever female MP, the first lesbian leader in Ruth Davidson and the first female Prime Minister in Margaret Thatcher.