The maverick Labour MP who admired Margaret Thatcher: How late Frank Field regularly met with the Tory PM he called 'Mrs T'

dailym.ai— The former MP, who has died from cancer aged 81, was long an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and even called her 'Mrs T'. He helped to persuade Mrs Thatcher to resign in November 1990.

BBC News—Frank Field: Labour MP who was a reformer, thinker and maverick. The Labour MP who regarded Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell as friends.

men—Tory MP and ex-health minister defects to Labour. Dr Dan Poulter has said he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye as a Conservative

BBC News—Former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81. The crossbench peer spent 40 years as MP for Birkenhead and was a leading voice on welfare reform.