Manufacturing has suffered a sharper decline under Labour than it did in the 1980ies under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s leadership, the Daily Mail reports.
The revelation will be an acute embarrassment for the Government, which have sought to portray the sector’s woes as a consequence of Tory neglect.
A study of figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that manufacturing’s share of the economy declined almost three times faster under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown than …

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday returned to No 10 Downing Street for the official unveiling of her new portrait.
The former prime minister is believed to be the first living politician to have her portrait hung in the official residence. Although photos of all modern prime ministers line the main staircase, only two 20th century premiers have paintings on display: David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill.
The portrait was painted by Royal artist …

The greatest post-war Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher is celebrating her 84th birthday today.
Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13th October, 1925 to Alfred Roberts, originally from Northamptonshire, and Beatrice Roberts née Stephenson from Lincolnshire.
She grew up to be a strong leader and an excellent, efficient Prime Minister who managed to bring this country back from the dumpster Labour had driven it to.
The Empire Chronicles and all our readers, I’m sure, wish Lady Thatcher a very …

Ken Clarke, the shadow business secretary, has warned his party that the Conservatives are on course to inherit a worse economic outlook than any incoming Tory government since the war, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In a hard-hitting speech to delegates in Manchester, he described the economy as a “mess”, with the public finances in a “far worse” state than those left by any previous Labour government, including that which gave way to Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
“It …

Despite that the Queen and then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher never hit it off, the Queen Mother considered Thatcher as one of her favourite politicians, The Independent reports.
Queen Mother’s admiration for Thatcher was used to mollify the Queen Mother during what threatened to be a rift with her daughter in the 1990s, according to a new biography. After royalty’s “annus horribilis” in 1992, when royal divorces and other problems took their popularity to a low ebb, …

Harriet Harman’s Government Equalities Office have produced a factsheet called “Women in Power: Milestones”, where all achievements of women in politics over the last century are recoded, and all women are identified by their names, except for the UK’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
James Kirkup writes in the Telegraph Blogs that the document names the first female councilllor (Reina Emily Lawrence), the first woman MP (Nancy Astor) and so on. “It’s admirably detailed, recording …

Former Prime Minister, Baroness Margaret Thatcher will be discharged from hospital tomorrow after an operation on her broken arm, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Lady Thatcher had a heavy fall at her London home more than two weeks ago and fractured her upper shoulder. After the break failed to heal as well as doctors had hoped, she underwent an operation to put in a pin into the shoulder.
The 83-year-old former Prime Minister spent 17 days in hospital.

A number of bloggers are reporting of the Telegraph story that former Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher has fell at her home and taken to a hospital. According to the report, 83-year-old Baroness lost her footing and fell. She was taken to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital by ambulance.
Doctors are carrying out x-rays after she suffered a painful injury to her upper arm, she was also badly shaken, the newspaper said.
According to The Times, she broke a …

30 years ago today, on 4th of May, 1979 Margaret Thatcher took over as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She inherited an impoverished country from Labour’s James Callaghan and only in a few years she made Britain flourish again. She was the best thing that happened to modern Britain, and her example shows us how much the United Kingdom needs her again now, 30 years later. Of course, the Baroness is retired now, …

What is the key to having a film made after your life or a part of it, and having this film show you in negative light? Well, one option is to be a Conservative leader, or even “worse”, a Conservative Prime Minister.
For some peculiar reason I anticipated “Margaret” to be something else. Something better, something different, something realistic. But a part of me was afraid it’s going to end up just another liberal propaganda film …