... ~~.. .. The Thatchers, doing it themselves. Pictures: TOM KING. TORY leader Mrs. Margaret Thatcher was brushing up on appearances at the weekendin her new country home. She proved to be a dab hand with a brush as she helped her husband to decorate the ...

... Keynote Margaret Thatcher has already rehearsed the keynote speech she will make on Friday. In America. Several times. Unless, of course, she tones it down for home consumption. Her new Toryism is. OLD TORYISM in large letters. It is the harsh philosophy ...

... MIRROR COMMENT' Mrs Thatcher, vols catcheil E IGHT months ago Tory M Ps took a big gamble when they made Margaret Thatcher their first woman leader. It was one thing for the political sophisticates of Westminster to accept her. But how would the Party ...

... Cheers for hanging call their execution was made at the party conference. Tory leader Margaret Thatcher led the clapping as the death call was made. But while Mrs. Thatcher applauded, Deputy Leader William Whitelaw sat blackfaced and angry. Mr. Whitelaw, ...

... girl speaks MARGARET THATCHER makes the most important speech of her life today when she addresses the conference for the first time as leader. No matter that the date is inauspicious (it is the anniversary of the disastrous Tory defeat in the second ...

... MIRROR COMMENT Mrs Thatcher and the shadows OR Margaret Thatcher, this week at Blackpool is her week of glory. For the first time she will sit on the platform of the Tory conference as leader., A leader who will, the Party hopes, point the way out of ...

... reopened. Mr. Lattimore, a Post Office sorter, has written to the Que e n, Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Tory leader Margaret Thatcher and a host of other leading figures. But it was not until February last year that their campaign got the boost it needed ...

... keen to see what sort of reception he getsthen compare it with that given to Margaret Thatcher. They know that the constituencies w ere strongly pro-Heath at the time Mrs. Thatcher took over. And they are f ully aware of the belief among supporters that Mr ...

... Tories wait for Maggie to pick her men By CHRISTOPHER BUCKLAND Chi , f Political Correspondent MARGARET Thatcher returns to the Commons today with the pressure on to shake up her Shadow Cabinet. Many Tory M Ps reckon that the enthusiastic reception which ...

... Ted won't play happy families HE icy relations between Margaret Thatcher and Ted Heath, the man she ousted from the leadership, showed no signs of thawing last night. Cameramen asked for a happy family picture of the two combatants posing together ...

... programme. Tory leader Margaret Thatcher . said that Mr. Wilson had given his answers in terms of estimates and not actual spending. This was running at 47 per cent. more than in the same period last year. she said. Mrs. Thatcher declared: If yo u are ...

... MEANWHILE DOWN ON THE FARM BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU 'TORY leader Margaret Thatcher had better watch what she says in h e r conference speechor she will catch it from her big sister. If I think there's anything she should or shouldn't have said, I'll ...