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Margaret Thatcher once ignored a high-risk assassination threat by terrorists in France, despite warnings from intelligence officials, it has been revealed. The former prime minister was set to meet ...

She faced down the IRA's murderous Brighton bomb attack in 1984, insisting the Tory party conference continue just hours after the terrorists' assassination bid. Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal an ...

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Forty years ago, on November 15 1985, something extraordinary occurred: the heads of the Irish and British governments, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the ...

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The home secretary is going hard on immigration and she's taking a lot of people with her, not least Kemi Badenoch and the Reform party. Shabana Mahmood is using her identity - as a British Asian ...

It is well known that up to the last moment Mrs Thatcher had doubts about the political and security gains to be achieved by signing the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Did you know with a Digital Subscription ...