The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Strip Tory members of power to pick prime minister, demands senior MP

Exclusive: former vice-chair of 1922 Committee condemns ‘shrill’ attacks by candidates and says only MPs should choose PM

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2022

Liz Truss: Who is the foreign secretary hoping to become prime minister?

Social media savvy ‘human hand grenade’ seen as continuity candidate and currently ahead of Rishi Sunak thanks to questionable tax promises and neo-Thatcherite branding

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022

Boris Johnson will be 'permanent nightmare' for next Tory PM, warns Hague

Former Conservative leader Lord Hague said the fact that Boris Johnson 'wants revenge on Rishi Sunakis already apparent, but if Liz Trussis elected, she will face the identical problem'

Daily Mirror · Jul 26, 2022

Liz Truss plans for tax cuts not ‘Thatcherite’, say members of former PM’s cabinet

Differences over tax have dominated Conservative leadership contest

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2022

Tory candidates both vow crackdown on illegal migration

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have pledged fresh measures to tighten British borders.

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2022

Sunak pledges to cap refugee numbers while Truss plans to expand Rwanda scheme

THE UK will crack down further on refugees in the coming months regardless of who enters Downing Street, after both Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 24, 2022

Liz Truss reminds me of a Tory leader but it’s not Margaret Thatcher

She has personal traits and political characteristics that are strikingly similar to those of Boris Johnson

The Guardian - UK · Jul 24, 2022

Tory leadership race 'poses Thatcher threat to Scotland amid lurch to the right'

THE SNP have warned of a growing “Thatcher threat” to Scotland with the Tory leadership race lurching “even further to the right”.

The National (Scotland) · Jul 24, 2022

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss BOTH lurch to right with grim migrant pledges

Rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vying to be Britain's next Prime Minister showed tonight that whichever way the scandal-hit Tories go, the UK will see further attempts to crack down on illegal migration - including the widely derided Rwanda asylum scheme

Daily Mirror · Jul 23, 2022

Sunak and Truss promise crackdown on illegal migration

Both the Foreign Secretary and the former chancellor appeared united on the need to toughen up UK policy on migrants.

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2022