FORMER PM Margaret Thatcher was threatened with a fine for failing to register for the poll tax, declassified documents reveal today. The former prime minister’s introduction of the hated tax in ...

MARGARET Thatcher was threatened with a fine for failing to register for the poll tax, despite making it her flagship local government reform, the newly released official documents have revealed.

Margaret Thatcher clashed with John Major over his ... She was also angry about his plans to abandon one of her signature policies, the poll tax. Mrs Thatcher, who was Conservative prime minister ...

Benefit changes coming into force next year have been compared to the poll tax - the policy that helped end Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister. Mrs Thatcher's successor as PM, Sir John ...

As if history had taught them nothing, Margaret Thatcher's Tory Government decided to introduce a Poll Tax and, despite many warnings, pushed the act through Parliament. The people, however ...

1990-1997: In 1990 Margaret Thatcher's introduction of the poll tax breeds resentment, which in turn leads to mass demonstrations and violence in London, and eventual repeal of the measure.

You won’t find me mounting the barricades in defence of the winter fuel payment, though I’ll miss the pleasant surprise when ...

Keir Starmer is facing a massive rebellion over "shameful" winter fuel payment cuts which Labour MPs fear will kill ...

Use of current system 'absurd' The current council tax system was introduced in 1993 and followed rioting over Margaret Thatcher's planned poll tax reforms to the old rating system in 1990.

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Margaret Thatcher was Britain's first - and ... bringing in the hated poll tax and crushing the power of the trade unions, culminating in the year-long miners' strike. She died in April 2013.

A Labour frontbencher has expressed frustration at the “out of date” council tax system and hinted ... the party of Margaret ...