Margaret Thatcher criticises Labour defence policy

Title

Margaret Thatcher criticises Labour defence policy

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

13 May 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:07

Description

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has torn into Labour’s defence policy, denouncing it before fifteen thousand Tory supporters at the Scottish Conservative Conference in Perth last night. The Tories are trailing in third place in the polls north of the border, but Thatcher was not in a defensive mood. Eve Conway reports.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Eve Conway

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Government; Labour Party; Conservative Party; Defence; Nuclear weapons; Policy making

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