Margaret Thatcher

Steven Nallon and Dick Fiddy. Picture: Richard Pickard at the British Film Institute. Richard Pickard/BFI

Spitting Image star on new book: 'Time travel has real emotional power'

The 'Bee Network' buses form part of the franchising model for bus services in Greater Manchester. PIC: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

The cost of privatisation on public service - YP Letters

Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool in 1985. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Strong leadership is required to bring the rail unions in line - Sarah Todd

BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell is retiring after 47 years.

‘Awful’ BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell retires

‘Biggest’ onshore windfarm proposals for Hebden Bridge
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Early stage plans for England’s biggest onshore windfarms in Hebden Bridge

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher pictured in 1975. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Green belt land could be better utilised for food production - YP Letters

Sheffield Interchange, Pond Street. Picture: Marie Caley

Time to break spiral of decline for region's bus network: Oliver Coppard

Baroness Margaret Thatcher with Tony Blair. Photo credit: Alistair Grant/PA Wire

Archives reveal secrets of Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Winston Churchill

A view of the Bank of England , which has raised interest rates 13 times over the last 18 months. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

A more common sense approach is required to inflation - David Blunkett

Hull-born Debra Stephenson pictured by Steve Ullathorne.

Debra Stephenson returns to Yorkshire with her talent for impressions

Councillor Andrew Carter has led the local Tories since 1980 and served as Leeds’ joint council leader between 2004 and 2010, when the Conservatives led the city in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Leeds’ top Conservative retires as the party’s group leader after 43 years

Star Wars is a space opera film series created by George Lucas that quickly exploded into a pop culture phenomenon.

How May 4 was taken and held by Star Wars fans

The average home in Yorkshire now costs over £190,000. The median local income for those in secure full time employment is £30,000. PIC: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

We’re letting down young families with existing housing policies - Andy Brown

Otley has become ‘dormitory town’ which could be reversed by 20-minute neighbourhoods

Otley has become ‘dormitory town’ which could be reversed - councillor

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pulls a Christmas cracker with her Chief Press Officer Bernard Ingham on the VC-10 taking her from Washington to London. It was the last leg of her round-the-world diplomatic trip.

Bernard Ingham: Thatcher's right-hand man with fierce loyalty to Yorkshire

Sir Bernard Ingham was press secretary to Margaret Thatcher and wrote for The Yorkshire Post. PIC: WPA Pool/Getty Images

Politics and journalism has lost a titan - The Yorkshire Post says

Sir Bernard Ingham in York, where he gave evidence to the controversial Coppergate Inquiry which is examining plans to develop a site at the heart of the historic city in the Clifford's Tower area in 2002

Bernard Ingham: Yorkshire Post journalist who became Thatcher's press man dies

Sir Bernard Ingham arrives in Downing Street to attend a party to celebrate the 85th birthday of Baroness Thatcher on October 14, 2010 (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Sir Bernard Ingham - press secretary to Margaret Thatcher- dies at 90

'The thought of Britain being allowed to go to the dogs would supercharge Margaret Thatcher's efforts'. PIC: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How Margaret Thatcher would have tackled the crisis we face - Bernard Ingham

Speaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle speaks in the House of Commons. PIC: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA Wire

This is what I would have said in Parliament before recess - Bernard Ingham

Tony Danker, Director-General Confederation of British Industry (CBI), watching Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during the CBI annual conference

No political or popular support exists for rejoining the EU: YP Letters
From: Thomas W Jefferson, Howden, Goole.

Developers can't be left to own devices to fix housing crisis: Andy Brown

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (foreground) and Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, during a visit to the Stalks & Stem store, a small business in Shawlands, Glasgow. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Return to EU could come sooner than people realise: Yorkshire Post Letters

Picture: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images.

Ten questions for those who still favour the EU - Bernard Ingham

Daxa Patel sat on her father's memorial bench in Golden Acre park in Leeds.

Sending refugees to Rwanda the extent of Braverman's aspirations? - Daxa Patel

Prime Minister Liz Truss outside 10 Downing Street. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Political naivete of Liz Truss has put the 'wets' in charge - Bernard Ingham

King Charles III during a visit to the BBC World Service at BBC Broadcasting House, London. PIC: Hannah McKay/PA Wire.

Happy 100th birthday to the BBC, we should be grateful for it - Andrew Vine

Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images

No yardstick by which we can assess Liz Truss - David Behrens

Pickets clash with police outside the National Union of Mineworkers headquarters, Sheffield on April 13, 1984. (Pic credit: John Rogers / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)

Worst power cuts in the UK from the miners’ strike to the 2003 London blackout

Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (L) and Prime Minister Liz Truss at the opening day of the annual Conservative Party conference. PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

Government could have done better in presenting the mini-budget - Bernard Ingham

Prime Minister Liz Truss during a visit to Berkeley Modular in Northfleet Kent, to coincide with the Government's new Growth Plan. Picture date: Friday September 23, 2022.

Why voters have been outraged by chaos surrounding the mini-budget -Greg Wright

New Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives in Downing Street, London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire.

Can Jarvis Cocker and Margaret Thatcher teach us about Liz Truss? - David Blunke...
This article was written prior to the sad death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaking in the House of Commons, London, to set out her energy plan to shield households and businesses from soaring energy bills.

Energy announcement offers little short term sugar, and plenty of long-term pain

Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday September 7, 2022.

The populist baton is free - if Labour want to pick it up

Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, before leaving for Balmoral for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II to formally resign as Prime Minister. Picture date: Tuesday September 6, 2022.

Analysis: Boris Johnson's extraordinary reign ends as it started

Liz Truss won the Tory party leaership race. PIC: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

What exactly does Prime Minister Liz Truss stand for? - Andrew Vine

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, died at the age of 91.

Why Putin should learn from the legacy of Gorbachev - The Yorkshire Post says

As Soviet leader, Gorbachev’s belief in glasnost and perestroika – openness and restructuring - ended decades of repression. Picture: PA

How Mikhail Gorbachev brought a peaceful end to the Cold War - Greg Wright

'Let Suella Braverman and Kim Badenoch loose on the wokerati'.

Pursuing diversity and quotas in the jobs leads to mediocrity - Bernard Ingham

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come in for fierce criticism for taking two summer holidays in a month.

Everyone is entitled to a holiday, even Boris Johnson - Bill Carmichael

Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, knows unions are doing his cause no good, writes Bernard Ingham.

Sir Keir Starmer is between a rock and hard left place - Bernard Ingham

The Majestic is the home of Channel 4 in Leeds.

What would the privatisation of Channel 4 mean for levelling up - Henri Murison

Tory promise of levelling up looks dead, but Labour can deliver - Lisa Nandy

Rishi Sunak hit out at the “forces that be” backing Tory leadership rival Liz Truss, as he positioned himself as the underdog in the race to replace Boris Johnson.

Rishi Sunak labels himself the underdog as ‘forces that be’ back Liz Truss

Boris Johnson could not outmanoeuvre the British Constitution - Bill Carmichael

Steve Nallon

Steve Nallon the man who made a living being Margaret Thtacher

Julie (Lesley Manville). ‘Her words make complete mockery of the Government’s promises on levelling up,’ Jayne Dowle says. Picture: Matt Squire/BBC/House Productions

Why Sherwood defines an age and is the best TV for decades - Jayne Dowle

Boris Johnson. Pic: Getty.

Do PM's own Tory detractors dare answers these questions? - Bernard Ingham

Kate Bush has returned to the pop charts with Running up that Hill after 37 years after the song appeared in Netflix series Stranger Things. Picture: Chas Sime/Central Press/Getty Images.

I woke to strikes, a Kate Bush No1 and was back in the 1980s - Bill Carmichael

Boris Johnson.

What Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to tell the nation - Bernard Ingham

Boris Johnson.

Labour must prepare while Prime Minister Boris Johnson is weak - David Blunkett

Library image of the Former Master of the Norland during the Falklands conflict, Capt Don Ellerby, right, on the wing of the bridge before the final sailing from Hull in 2002, with Bob Lough, centre, Chief Officer at the time, and Capt Chris Esplin-Jones, senior naval officer. Picture: JPI Media

How the Hull-based ferry Norland showed courage under fire in the Falklands

VIP chauffeur Millie Forster turns 100 next month.

Millie Forster’s remarkable life On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – The Yorkshire...

99 year old Millie Forster from Melsonby near Richmond

Millie, 99, on a life behind the wheel involving royalty, PMs and a President

Former Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry. Photo: JPI Media

Build back better? We want to build back differently, say northern Tory MPs

Boris Johnson is coming under pressure over his handling of Covid as the UK death toll surpasses 100,000 people.

Time for Boris Johnson to admit pandemic mistakes – The Yorkshire Post says

President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration takes place today amid tight securty.

Biden picks up bill for the $10 trillion cost of Trump: Bernard Ingham

How do you rate Boris Johnson's handling of Covid?

Boris Johnson and his Ministers deserve loyalty – Bernard Ingham

Boris Johnson's reaction in 10 Downig Street when the Brexit trade deal with the EU was sealed on Christmas Eve.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit finally restores democracy – Bernard Ingham

Norman Tebbit and his late wife Margaret at their home. Photo: David Parker/ANL/Shutterstock

Norman Tebbit’s devotion to his wife Margaret and defiance after Brighton bomb –...