Margaret Thatcher Dies at 87 Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first – and still only – female prime minister, died of a stroke.

Though Thatcher's Conservatives won re-election in 1987, the fall of the Iron Curtain deprived her of a key role as the scourge of communism, and she could appear out of touch with the times.

Lord Boswell of Aynho, who has died aged 82, was a Northamptonshire farmer who was Conservative MP for Daventry from 1987 to ...

Margaret Thatcher, a democrat and a radical, has conducted a far more savage and effective assault upon the inherited assumptions of British political life, and the class assumptions underlying it ...

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a historic third consecutive term of office Thursday by a crushing margin as voters gave her another five years to carry out a revolution of ”popular capi… ...

Thatcher led the Tories to a landslide victory in 1979, followed by easy wins in 1983 and 1987.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher swept toward a decisive election victory Thursday and a record third consecutive term in office. As first official results of the election were announced, British t… ...

A widely-circulated social media post saying that Britain’s Heathrow Airport makes 3.5 billion pounds ($4.73 billion) per year claims falsely that former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher “gave it ...

Monday the 11th of June 2012 has a particular resonance for veteran politicians, particularly Tories. It's the 25th anniversary of the 1987 general election, which saw Margaret Thatcher victorious ...

In 1987, Thatcher was given a rare opportunity to appear on Soviet television. The interview she gave sent shock waves through the Soviet Union.

After her historic third election victory in 1987, things started to go wrong for Margaret Thatcher. By 1990, she had been ousted,to be succeeded as PM by John Major.