22 May 2013

Downing Street will be warned by senior Conservatives that a sea change is under way in the parliamentary party as growing numbers of MPs decide that Prime Minister David Cameron is a liability,...

3:57AM
10 Apr 2013

Margaret Thatcher stated her beliefs to the electorate and moved ahead on a "back me or sack me" basis. She inherited a bankrupt country and transformed the economy. She was so successful that I...

3:20AM
27 Dec 2012

Nearly two-thirds of British people support plans to introduce gay marriage, according to a poll published on Thursday which showed growing backing for the reform.

10:35PM
10 Nov 2012

Alistair McAlpine, who was treasurer and deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party under former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, yesterday denied internet rumours that he had been part of a...

3:00AM
9 Nov 2012

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that accusations of paedophilia against senior Conservative politicians risk creating a "witch hunt", particularly against gay people.

3:27AM
10 Oct 2012

Britain's Conservative party gave maverick London Mayor Boris Johnson a rock star welcome at its annual conference. But while he left the prime minister, David Cameron, in the shade, it is still...

4:04AM

British Prime Minister David Cameron talked tough on Europe and the economy yesterday as he headed to his party's annual conference, where he faces a major test of his leadership.

4:43AM

The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister
by John Campbell
Penguin

2:27AM

On May 11, British Prime Minister Gordon resigned from his post, ending 13 years of the Labour party's centre-left rule. He resigned after the Labour Party lost many seats to the opposing centre-...

6:46AM

Unelected British Prime Minister Gordon Brown finally admitted defeat this week. After last week's elections there was no clear winner between the big two parties, Labour and the Conservatives....

8:12AM

Spies do not come readily to mind as victims of change like the rest of us - of workplace restructuring, cost-cutting, retraining and the like.

11:13AM

I refer to your agency story headlined 'Mellor backs Major' (South China Morning Post, October 2), which said ex-Tory minister David Mellor had to quit the British cabinet in 1992 over his affair...

6:35PM

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