Tory gasps as Robert Jenrick reveals daughter’s middle name is Thatcher
Leadership candidate tells party conference he thought it was a good way to remind daughter of a great PM
September 2024
Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair
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Nigel Farage is a dreamer, just like David Steel
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Politics hat-trick can’t beat Arsenal at home
Beaten, marooned, demoralised – and yet still the right clings to Thatcher. I’ve seen them: they’re so lost
Polly Toynbee
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened
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Let’s not forget why refugees are here
Starmer removed Thatcher portrait as he dislikes ‘pictures of people staring down at him’
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Robert Jenrick’s heartlessness can’t be glossed over
Dining across the divide
Dining across the divide: ‘I said that in my idealistic communist utopia, all housing would be owned by the state’
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A thrifty way to redecorate Downing Street
August 2024
The lady’s not for returning – but where has No 10’s Thatcher portrait gone?
Painting that hung in former PM’s study since 2009 no longer there – but aides are tightlipped as to whereabouts
The Iron Lady consigned to the ironing cupboard? Keir Starmer did pledge to do things differently
Marina Hyde
After a week extolling smoking bans and budget misery, the PM delivered his coup de grace: exiling a famous Thatcher portrait from No 10, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
