In the mid-1980s, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) was at the height of her power, I used to attend ...

The nomination paper signed by Margaret Thatcher that led to her becoming leader of the Conservative Party is among a cache of historic material recently discovered in a cardboard box. It belonged to ...

Political aphorisms live on long after they cease to be true. For example, it is still said that 'loyalty is the Conservative ...

From the unionist perspective it is important to remember that even after all the setbacks it has suffered since the ...

A new collection of the testimonies of pioneering femaleMPs amounts to an important social history of how theymet – and ...

Lucy Powell’s victory is likely to be seen as a call from the Labour membership for a change of direction amid growing ...

​As we report on page 12, Sir John Major has accused the Conservatives of a “loss of pragmatism, tolerance, nuance” and of ...

Lord Taverne, who has died aged 97, was an early casualty of the internecine warfare that engulfed the Labour Party from the ...

Keir Starmer will have noted one moment at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool. When Wes Streeting, the health secretary, ...

The Treasury committee has warned against reducing the annual £20,000 allowance that savers can put into a cash ISA ...

We live in a political age in which the 'unlikely' increasingly becomes the 'likely', with a rapidity similar to Hemingway's description of going bankrupt - gradually, then suddenly... very suddenly.