For me, Making Speeches is important because it reminds the reader of a political era when speeches were designed to win, in Mrs Thatcher’s words, the “battle of ideas”.

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was neurotic about become too associated with AIDS during the early health campaign, her former health secretary has said.

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Margaret Thatcher bitterly resisted calls for a major public education campaign to counter the threat of an Aids epidemic. Papers released by the National Archives at Kew show how the prime ...

Margaret Thatcher helped save the career of a police chief constable who said Aids patients lived in a "human cesspool of their own making", newly-released documents show.

Margaret Thatcher opposed the idea of government warnings about “risky sex” in an Aids awareness campaign during the late 1980s, a former Conservative cabinet minister has said. Norman Fowler ...

The Thatcher government responded rather effectively and humanely to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Embracing harm reduction measures such as syringe exchange and methadone maintenance, it saved thousands ...