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OPINION - Where’s Margaret Thatcher in the new National Portrait Gallery mural?

She’s been dead for 10 years but I rarely read the news without thinking of her. More than any other figure of recent history, Margaret Thatcher created modern Britain, in all its dysfunction and despondency. Housing misery, asthmatic public services, crumbling infrastructure, badly privatised industries such as the waterworks, which…

Evening Standard

Liz Truss says livestream of lettuce that lasted longer than her No10 time ‘puerile’

The former prime minister also described the Daily Star’s livestream of a lettuce while she was in No 10 as ‘puerile’

Evening Standard

Truss brands claims she dresses like Thatcher ‘lazy thinking’

The former prime minister also described the Daily Star’s livestream of a lettuce while she was in No 10 as ‘puerile’.

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Liz Truss moans viral lettuce that lasted longer than her No10 stint was 'puerile'

A blonde-wigged iceberg lettuce outlasted Liz Truss's 49-day premiership - the shortest in history - but the ex-Prime Minister was scathing in her assessment of the stunt

Daily Mirror

The Power of Parker: release date, cast, interviews, plot, trailer and all about the comedy set in 1990

The Power of Parker is a BBC1 comedy that goes back to Manchester in 1990 and stars Rosie Cavaliero, Conleth Hill, Sian Gibson and Sheila Reid.

WhatToWatch

Scottish coal-mining areas remain ‘haunted’ by Margaret Thatcher crackdown

SCOTLAND’S coal mining communities are still “haunted” by the devastation of the Thatcher years and more needs to be done to boost local…

The National (Scotland)

Time’s up for Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi – but the damage they have caused lives on

Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi are the stars of rightwing populist melodramas. Real people with real-world problems are more deserving of attention

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville: Westminster’s Renaissance man

In the course of an extraordinary political career, he filled a multitude of roles with a style and gravitas that marked him out as a true gentleman and a consummate negotiator

The Independent UK

In memory of Glenda Jackson: ‘She touched something central about what it means to be alive’

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

The Guardian - UK

One good can come from the Boris Johnson debacle: the will to look afresh at the House of Lords

We should consider whether PMs should have such power to shape the upper chamber, says former lord speaker Norman Fowler

The Guardian - UK

Mozammel Hossain: Tory mayoral contender breaks cover to reveal key policies

Describes Ulez expansion as ‘very cruel measure’ and vows to turn off cameras ‘on day one’

Evening Standard

Drop culture war battles, Penny Mordaunt tells Tories

Party must focus on ‘building more and taxing less’, says cabinet minister

The Independent UK

OPINION - Silvio Berlusconi crashed the clown car into politics

Silvio Berlusconi, billionaire entrepreneur, four times prime minister of Italy and sometime cruise ship crooner, who has died at 86, pioneered a style of performance politics that provided a template for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump.

Evening Standard

Drop culture war battles, Penny Mordaunt tells Tories

Party must focus on ‘building more and taxing less’, says cabinet minister

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The Guardian - UK

This is Starmer’s moment. Thatcherism has collapsed, and the Tories are at each other’s throats

This is no passing crisis, it is existential. Look at the polls – people don’t want the Tories or their agenda any more, says Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Tax cuts without lower inflation is ‘betrayal’ of Thatcher, says minister

Gillian Keegan said the Government would need to ensure ‘sound money’ and financial stability before planning to cut taxes.

Daily Mirror

Gillian Keegan attacks 'fairytale' economics of Tory right as civil war deepens

'Selectively choosing bits of the legacy and dressing it up as Thatcherism is a betrayal of her great legacy,' Gillian Keegan told the Centre for Policy Studies' annual Margaret Thatcher Conference in a dig at Liz Truss

Evening Standard

Priti Patel leads tributes to ‘political titan’ Boris Johnson after former PM quits as MP

‘Boris Johnson has served our country and his constituency with distinction. He led world in supporting Ukraine, got Brexit done, and was our most electorally successful Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher,’ Ms Patel said

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The Independent UK

Movie Review: In ‘Blue Jean,’ a nuanced picture of life as a lesbian in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

A high school gym teacher grappling with her sexual identity is challenged on both a micro and macro level in 1988 England in “Blue Jean,” the directorial debut of Georgia Oakley, starring Rosy McEwan in theaters Friday

The Independent UK

Scottish Labour leader stresses oil and gas will play major part for ‘decades’

Anas Sarwar said a Labour government would not make the ‘same mistakes’ as Margaret Thatcher.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer says he wants to empower local communities. The Jamie Driscoll affair suggests otherwise

Blocking the North of Tyne mayor from standing for Labour again shows how deep the party’s centralism runs, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

The spectre of price controls is back to spook Sunak – and Thatcherite myths won’t save him

The prime minister is stubbornly attached to an outdated ideology, but has no plan for adapting to volatile times, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art

Postwar artists wouldn’t have had a chance without affordable housing or social security, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

The Guardian - UK

UK could break up unless it is rebuilt as ‘solidarity union’, says Mark Drakeford

Exclusive: First minister of Wales says bonds that tie UK together have come under ‘sustained assault’ from 40 years of neoliberalism

The Guardian - UK

The Covid inquiry is digging up Boris Johnson’s blunders and the mess keeps piling up

The former prime minister seems determined to drag the Tories down with him when the public hearings into Britain’s handling of the pandemic begin

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