Margaret Thatcher Articles

Sajid Javid could be the sign the electorate is looking for that the Tory party has shed its ‘nasty party’ reputation, argues Felicity Slater Few leaders inspire true fear in their opponents. Those that do, do so because they force people to think again about the...

Labour went down to a terrible defeat in May. Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein’s post-match analysis was insightful. The ‘shy Tories’ who have long preoccupied pollsters and Labour party strategists are, he said, neither shy nor Tory. They were genuinely undecided,...

Labour must not leave the field to the Tories as it did in the 1980s The period from Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979 to Labour’s utter rout in 1983 has come under renewed scrutiny. Moderates have sought to use it as a dire warning of what happens when the Bennites...

On 8 May 2015, 34 per cent of those entitled to vote did not bother to turn up to the polling station. As Labour faces up to the dilemma of how a leftwing party can win the next election given that the electorate chose to give power to the right, these non-voters...