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The Chinese government has been accused of deliberately “humiliating” the United Kingdom, the former Colonial power that oversaw the transformation of Hong Kong into a global centre of commerce, on the 20th anniversary of the handover of the city.

The chairman of Britain’s oldest conservative think tank has slammed political strategist turned media pundit Steve Hilton for portraying himself as a Tea Party style anti-establishment figure, accusing him of being a liberal “moderniser” and RINO (Republican in name only).

An investigation by The Times has revealed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was arrested in 1986 for taking part in a protest organised by IRA sympathisers to “show solidarity” with terrorists, including Brighton bomber Patrick Magee.

The head of a leading economic think tank has savaged the Conservative Party’s election platform, questioning the party’s commitment to lowering tax and cutting state spending.

Young adults who came of age during the premiership of Tony Blair are more likely to hold conservative economic views similar to Margaret Thatcher, an analysis has found.

What should British Prime Minister Theresa May talk about when she becomes the first world leader to meet President Trump?

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, has laid out her ambitions for the government to create a “shared society” which benefits all, not just the elite few. She says she believes that government has a central role to play in the

Margaret Thatcher has topped the BBC Woman’s Hour list of most influential woman of the last 70 years, but the judges stressed that the list honours those who made a “negative impact”, as well as a positive.

U.S. President Barack Obama is to send a more senior representative to the funeral of Communist dictator Fidel Castro than he did to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher. Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes will attend the funeral of the

John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, has a fair claim to the title “greatest living conservative statesman”. This week, at London’s National Gallery, he was presented by the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) with the Edmund Burke Award.

Britain’s new Prime Minister was bound to disappoint in the end – but couldn’t she have kept us all starry eyed with admiration just a little longer before dashing our expectations against the rocks?

If you’ve got 17 minutes to spare I urge you to watch this video (currently being circulated on Twitter). And if you haven’t got 17 minutes to spare, then make some spare. It will infuriate, enlighten, delight and terrify you all at

As conservative icon and living legend Phyllis Schalfly celebrated her 92nd birthday this week, leaders throughout the nation-state conservative movement offered their birthday well wishes to a woman whom they described as “America’s Margaret Thatcher,” “our true hero,” and “one of America’s greatest patriots.”

Britain is now certain to have a second female Prime Minister as Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May were announced as the final two candidates in the Tory leadership race yesterday. The result has cast obvious comparisons with the first, Margaret

Nigel Farage – who has announced his (presumably temporary) retirement from politics –  is without question the most important, influential and courageous British politician since Margaret Thatcher. And just like Margaret Thatcher his reward for this has been consistently to

Nile Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation and a former aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon Thursday, “I think she would be greatly saddened by the fact that Britain is still part of the European Union.”

Members of Parliament yesterday convened in the House of Commons to pay their tributes to Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, who was killed last week. But their outpouring of grief lies in stark contrast to the protocol followed

Michael Heseltine is the establishment’s oldest hitman, a liberal infiltrator and a traitor to the conservative movement. It’s time for conservatives to hit back hard. A quarter of a century ago Margaret Thatcher was betrayed by many of her closest

A private letter from Margaret Thatcher to a prominent Eurosceptic MP lays to rest any argument that the former Prime Minister would have campaigned to remain in the European Union (EU) in the upcoming referendum. The letter, sent by Margaret Thatcher to

The Sunday Times, owned by the open borders funder Rupert Murdoch, has today published an extraordinary claim that Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would campaign to stay in today’s European Union – a fact that is easily dismissed with

More than 400 personal possessions belonging to the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher are up for auction tomorrow in a sale that is expected to raise at least £500,000. Baroness Thatcher’s daughter, Carol, has put the mementos up for sale

Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down for a late lunch with rapper Killer Mike on Monday, just hours before the rapper introduced the Democratic presidential candidate at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

Personal items belonging to Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Margaret Thatcher, including some of her famous handbags, are to be sold in London next month, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday. Around 350 lots including clothes and jewellery accrued during her

Geoffrey Howe, the former Conservative MP who was Lady Thatcher’s longest-serving Cabinet minister died yesterday aged 88, just five months after retiring from the House of Lords. As well as serving as Lady Thatcher’s first Chancellor for four years, Geoffrey Howe

The Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempts to reach out to Labour voters has suffered a humiliating blow. It has emerged that a voter he quoted during his party conference speech this week, as an example of someone who had been

Some will say the relentlessly left wing and snobbish attitude of British universities is a recent phenomenon, but the story of Margaret Thatcher’s snub from the University of Oxford shows otherwise. A lot has been written about the ideological purity

It was the iconic love-match marriage of the 1980s. Ronald Reagan was best man and Margaret Thatcher matron of honour when conservatism embraced neo-liberalism at the start of a relationship that seemed destined to conquer the hearts of the developed

Hot on the heels of Jeb Bush’s call for Margaret Thatcher to be put on the $10 bill, a UK-based charity that has been set up to teach future generations about the Iron Lady’s life, values and achievements is now marketing replica $10 bills with a portrait of Lady Thatcher on them.

Comedian Adam Carolla arrived in London yesterday for a one off live recording of his record-breaking podcast. Any concerns he and his team might have had about his chances of success were swiftly put to rest when he took to the stage

The left-ward drift of Britain’s Conservative Party is set to continue, if the harbingers of the country’s so-called ‘right wing’ are heeded by the Prime Minister. Today’s call by the Spectator’s editor Fraser Nelson describes how David Cameron should lurch left

Viscount Monckton has given a short but intriguing insight into his time in Margaret Thatcher’s 10 Downing Street, stating that “myopic disloyalty” driven by “Pooterish little-Europeanism” was the least satisfying part of his job.  Monckton, a hereditary peer who joined UKIP in

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out swinging on foreign policy at the candidate forum in New Hampshire Monday night hosted by C-SPAN and the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina channeled former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Monday’s Voters First Presidential Forum in New Hampshire. Fiorina stated, “I started out as a secretary in a little nine person real estate firm. I went on to lead

Demands to tear down Margaret Thatcher Plaza in the centre of Madrid in Spain are indicative of the left’s new aggressive policy of “cultural editing” – further illustrated by the fact there are plans to replace the square, which only opened last

Margaret Thatcher accused the BBC of “assisting the enemy” during the Falklands War by broadcasting the moves British troops were likely to make before they actually happened, new documents reveal. Baroness Thatcher wrote that she was “very angry” at how

Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute and expert for the Heartland institute joined Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot radio to discuss climate change.