Margaret Thatcher

A veteran trade union leader has branded Rishi Sunak a “lightweight Thatcher tribute act”. Former TUC General Secretary John Monks has accused the Prime Minister of scapegoating key workers and threatening tighter shackles on unions to ban…

Rishi Sunak has been urged to force lazy MPs to hold weekly surgeries as his New Year’s Resolution. A new set of “contractual obligations”, suggested by True and Fair Party leader Gina Miller, would make regular meetings…

Labour leader Keir Starmer will get another leg up towards election victory – as the right wing Reform party unveils plans to split the Tory vote. Leader Richard Tice says he will field candidates in 600 seats after standing aside…

Rishi Sunak has snubbed an offer from RMT boss Mick Lynch to meet up to solve the rail dispute. And instead the PM upped the bitter war of words against the union as his aides accused RMT of “holding Christmas hostage with more damaging…

Lord Young of Graffham, a cabinet minister who was known as a favourite of Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 90. A Conservative Party spokesperson confirmed the death of the peer, who became secretary of state for employment in 1985,…