The Queen quickly called her prime minister to apologise and deny that the remarks represented her view on the topic, a new official biography of Lady Thatcher has revealed.

Hard-left MP John McDonnell, who was appointed shadow Chancellor by Jeremy Corbyn, said he would like to go back to the 1980s and assassinate Margaret Thatcher.

In the fifth of a series of features to mark the Queen becoming Britain’s longest serving monarch, we look back at her 63-year reign by focusing on the decade Her Majesty lost her mother and sister.

The actor is said to have pulled her aside at the glamorous event in Los Angeles and made the offer in an effort to get to know her better.

It wouldn't take long for pandemic disease to break out. It will quickly become apparent that the present world population of six and a half billion people is not only dependent on oil, but was created by it: humanity has expanded to fill the space …

Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Armstrong has defended his decision not to act when he was warned by the security services in 1986 that an MP had ‘a penchant for small boys’.

Margaret Gabica spent quarter of a century at St Julian’s Primary School in Newport, South Wales, but she wasn’t prepared for such a memorable send-off as her pupils broke into a flashmob dance routine.

Thirty years have passed since the defining political struggle of modern times, when Margaret Thatcher’s government defeated Arthur Scargill’s miners and broke the power of the unions.

Baroness Thatcher is understood to have used the napkin to remove excess lipstick while in Ohio during a speaking tour of the US in 2000. It was taken from her bin and is now up for grabs.

Officials received intelligence in 1983 that the Iraqis were making mustard gas at a pesticide plant north of Baghdad, according to Foreign Office papers released today.