Margaret Thatcher was so lacking in empathy that today she would be diagnosed with a disorder, according to Steve Coogan, the star of a new drama about the former prime minister. Coogan plays ...

The two-part show will look at former Labour MP and broadcast journalist Brian Walden, played by Steve, and former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Harriet.

He doesn’t look any more like Brian Walden than I do Margaret Thatcher, but I followed his cue in a way. He got the rhythms; the rhythms of somebody’s speech, their text, etc. Steve Coogan ...

Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, who has died aged 96, was Conservative MP for Gloucester for 17 years and a popular consumer affairs minister in Margaret Thatcher ... In her maiden speech she called ...

John Swinney has attacked Margaret Thatcher as he sets out his vision for ending child poverty today. The First Minister said there is "nothing without society" in a swipe at the former Tory Prime ...

Harriet Walter never met Margaret Thatcher, but she is musing gleefully on how awkward an encounter between the two may have proved. “I think she would have detested me,” she says happily.

In a defiant response to her critics, the Chancellor said she was happy for her ‘steely’ methods to be compared to those of former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the ...

Rachel Reeves has hit out at critics who "don't want to see her succeed" amid soaring UK borrowing costs and slumped growth. The Chancellor said she wouldn't let criticism over her decision to ...

Dame Harriet Walter has said it was “difficult” to portray the “mask-like” quality of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher for a new Channel 4 drama. Brian And Maggie tells the story of ...

This may go down as the year that the UK finally severed its bond to Margaret Thatcher, the former leader who changed her country and set an economic template for much of the world with a program ...

An Oxford PhD student has said it was "remarkable" that US President Jimmy Carter replied to her letter asking of his relationship with Margaret Thatcher. Dr Emily Stacey wrote to the former ...

The then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, held a friendly meeting with a leading member of the junta in Downing Street in 1980 while Britain’s ambassador in Argentina regarded the promotion of ...