British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

The Thatcher Conservative government declined to introduce amending legislation to make good the defect in the ' two year rule '.

After initial Conservative opposition to Keynesian fiscal policy, this settlement was broadly accepted by all parties until Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979.

In February 1975, Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the British Conservative Party.

In 1984, GCHQ was the centre of a political row when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher prohibited its employees from belonging to a trade union.

The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed to force the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to withdraw powers to restrict the spending of councils.

After the resignation of Margaret Thatcher, the governing Conservative Party is about to elect a new leader.

In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs.

Major was Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997 and held the posts of Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher.

This included the rise of the European Union, an issue which was already a source of friction within the Conservative Party owing to its importance in the decline and fall of Margaret Thatcher.

During the 1990s, the bitterness on the right wing of the Conservative Party at the manner in which Margaret Thatcher had been removed from office did not make Major's task any easier.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

Margaret Thatcher famously used the sketch in a speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 1990, before ending the speech by commenting, " And now for something completely different.

* 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership.

Kinnock was also perceived as scoring in debates over Margaret Thatcher in the Commons — previously an area in which he was seen as weak — and finally Conservative MPs challenged Thatcher's leadership and she resigned on 22 November 1990 to be succeeded by John Major.

The United Kingdom's largest public-share offerings were privatizations of British Telecom and British Gas during the 1980s under the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, when many state-run firms were sold off to the private sector.

The second main grouping in the Conservative party is the " free-market wing " of economic liberals who achieved dominance after the election of Margaret Thatcher as party leader in 1975.

The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

In the United Kingdom the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

* Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party rise to power in the United Kingdom in 1979, initiating a neoliberal economic policy of reducing government spending, weakening the power of trade unions, and promoting economic and trade liberalization.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

* November 22 – Margaret Thatcher announces she will not contest the second ballot of the leadership election for the Conservative Party ( UK ).

** Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party.

* June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority .< ref >

After Honduras became an independent republic, the capital alternated between Comayagua and Tegucigalpa ( Comayagua being preferred by Conservative administrations, and Tegucigalpa by Liberal ones ) before being permanently established at Tegucigalpa in 1880.

He held office in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Master of the Buckhounds and was also Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.

In the Conservative administrations of 1923 to 1924, and 1924 to 1927 he was the minister responsible, under the jurisdiction of the Foreign Secretary, for British activities in League affairs.

The Right Honourable David James Fletcher Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, PC, MBE ( born 21 May 1942 ), is a British Conservative politician, and was a member of the Cabinet during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major administrations, while also being appointed to serve on the Privy Council in 1980.

The subsequent Peel administrations have been labelled " Conservative " rather than " Tory ", but the older term remains in use.

His grandson, the ninth Earl, served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1897 to 1905 in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour.

He was a Conservative politician and held office in the administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as Postmaster General, as President of the Board of Education, as Lord Privy Seal and as Lord President of the Council.

He notably held ministerial office from 1951 to 1957 in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

The twenty-second Baron served in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home as a government whip from 1961 to 1962 and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government from 1962 to 1964.

He served as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1867 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli and was also Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire.

Like his father he was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and also held political office in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Postmaster General and as Lord Privy Seal.

He also held political office and served in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and Under-Secretary of State for War.

His eldest son, the fifth Earl, served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1922 to 1924 in the Conservative administrations of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin and was later Chairman of the Hampshire County Council.

The second Earl notably served in the Conservative administrations under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

Lord Elphinstone sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1867 to 1885 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) in the Conservative administrations of Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

He served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) for nine years.

He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1945 to 1963 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) between 1954 and 1957 in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

He is a former Member of the European Parliament and also served in junior positions in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Lord Howe held office from 1991 to 1997 in the Conservative administrations of John Major.

His son, the fourth Viscount, was an Irish Representative Peer from 1862 to 1886 and served as a government whip from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1880 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

His nephew, the third Viscount, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) in the Conservative administrations of Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath.

The second Viscount held office in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major and since 2003 he is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

He served as a government whip from 1979 to 1997 in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

His elder son, the second Viscount, notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1986 to 1991 in the Conservative administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.