The main difference between Kemi and Maggie (as she became known in the tabloids) is that Thatcher didn’t face the challenge ...

Federico Sturzenegger describes prime minister during the Falklands War as a ‘fighter’ and a model for the reforms his ...

Dubbed the interview that destroyed the Iron Lady's career, Labour MP turned journalist Brian Walden's bruising broadcast encounter with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher belied their secret ...

Today marks 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became Leader of the Conservative Party, the first female leader of a major political party in the Western world. When she became the Tory leader in ...

But one interview, aired on 29 October 1989, proved to be a turning point in her premiership. Conducted by Brian Walden, the former MP turned feared political interviewer, the grilling exposed the ...

Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie looks at the final TV interview Margaret Thatcher gave with Brian Walden, with the former PM played by Harriet Walter ...

To demand that all of that be ignored in the face of one-sided requiems to her ... whether or not they were Margaret Thatcher." Most on the left have behaved honorably — and, of course, "there ...

The crisis became a defining moment of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, and changed her image and her political fortunes. Until then, April 2, 1982, opinion polls showed her to be the most ...

The interview is the subject of this two-part Channel 4 drama by James Graham, and starring Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan.