Miners strike - Orgreave picket violence

Title

Miners strike - Orgreave picket violence

Genre

Speech

TX Date

30 May 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:00:41

Description

Speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Banbury Cattle Market, Oxfordshire, on the violent clashes between the miners and police at the Orgreave steel plant and why miners will fail in their action. To applause.

Further information

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105691

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Trade unions; Government; Labour disputes; Police; Conservative Party; Miners; Violence; Arthur Scargill; NUM; Coal miners; Steelworks; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Banbury; Strikes (events); Orgreave

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