Conservative Party (UK)

British leader David Cameron faces dissent on EU membership

2013-05-13 18:11:00

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron moved Monday to beat back a brewing rebellion within his Conservative Party over Britain's membership in the European Union, rejecting demands for a speedy public vote on exiting the trading bloc but insisting...

Goldberg: What 'the Iron Lady' forged

2013-04-09 00:00:00

In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...

Margaret Thatcher is lionized and lambasted

2013-04-08 17:19:00

LONDON — Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted — sometimes both in the same breath — as news of her passing Monday spread...

Thatcher funeral to be at St. Paul's Cathedral

2013-04-08 07:49:00

LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to be given a ceremonial funeral with military honors. The service will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, an honor reserved for great figures of state. One of Thatcher’s...

Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister

2013-04-08 06:10:00

LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...

Margaret Thatcher: In her own words

2013-04-08 18:15:00

As education secretary in the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher said she did not think a woman would become British prime minister in her lifetime. She would occupy the job for nearly a dozen years, moving into 10 Downing St. in 1979. Thatcher died Monday at the...

Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood

2013-04-09 05:00:00

While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...

To cheers and jeers, Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest

2013-04-17 11:51:00

LONDON -- A gun boomed once a minute, like one of her thunderous speeches in Parliament. Gray skies slowly turned blue, the color of her Conservative Party. And even Big Ben fell quiet, in tribute to a woman who loved nothing more than silencing her foes....

Thousands gather for 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's funeral

2013-04-17 04:28:00

LONDON -- With stately solemnity and military honors, Margaret Thatcher's body was borne through the streets of the British capital Wednesday morning to a funeral service where hundreds of world leaders, colleagues and friends paid their last respects...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

2013-04-08 05:29:00

LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain’s first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate...

Margaret Thatcher's death dominates British headlines

2013-04-09 07:53:00

LONDON – An influential and divisive figure in life, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dominated the national headlines here after she died at the age of 87. British television and radio stations broke into their regularly...

Margaret Thatcher: The politician British pop music loved to hate

2013-04-08 11:10:00

Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady, was one of God's gifts to music. In the history of popular music, there probably never has been a head of state more reviled in song than the former Conservative Party British prime minister, who died today at...

In a file photo from October 1985, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher is at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool.

2013-04-12 18:44:00

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attends the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1987.

2013-04-08 05:35:09

In this 2009 file photo, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the News of the World tabloid, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England.

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