Margaret Thatcher, the first and only woman to ever serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has died at the age of 87. A spokesperson announced this morning that she had a stroke, though she ...

I cannot claim to have been an intimate of Margaret Thatcher’s. But I can claim to have known her on several levels—as a prime minister from whom I learned to put the “political” back into “political ...

When Paul Dooley was a police officer in the 1980s, he faced off against striking coal miners in the north of England. And although many in Britain at the time were highly critical of the tactics used ...

Timeline on the life of former British prime minister, ‘the Iron Lady’, who died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. 1925 – October 13: Margaret Hilda Roberts is born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, ...

LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher will be given a funeral just one step short of a full state ceremony on April 17, the government announced, a day after Britain's only female prime minister died at 87, ...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – a champion of free-market economics and individual liberty – died today in London. The following statements from staffers, fellows, and policy ...

Derek Phillips gave Margaret Thatcher one of her first breaks in politics. As a member of the selection committee in the North London area of Finchley, where the young, ambitious politician was, in ...

Margaret Thatcher first won election to Parliament in 1959, representing Finchley in north London. She climbed the Conservative Party ladder quickly, joining the Cabinet as education secretary in 1970 ...