MARGARET Thatcher showed last night she had not lost any of her ability to polarise political opinion when she was urged to apologise for the destruction her policies had wrought on Scotland.
The call came from Labour a few hours before Baroness Thatcher was made a rare visit north of the border for a grand dinner to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her 1979 election victory that changed the United Kingdom for ever.
Gordon Brown has been warned that sacking Hazel Blears in a reshuffle could turn her into an 'Exocet missile' who could destroy his premiership. Speculation has been.
It is 30 years to the day since she became our first female Prime Minister. And despite her increasingly frailty, Margaret Thatcher was determined to celebrate the occasion this weekend.
“I still find it awe inspiring to think of the state of the nation you inherited and the immense achievements of your governments. Getting the country to live within it means.
Lord Howe of Aberavon was the former Deputy Prime Minister whose resignation precipitated Thatcher’s downfall “Even after my resignation in 1990, we have remained civilised with each other.
Gordon Brown likes dividing lines, and he has scrawled one, thick and red, across British politics. The Budget tells us that Labour will fight the next election on an old-fashioned platform of wealth-destroying taxes and reckless spending.
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