Conservative conference - Margaret Thatcher speech

Title

Conservative conference - Margaret Thatcher speech

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Oct 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:04:02

Description

Emma Udwin reports on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s well-received keynote speech at the 1987 Blackpool Conservative Party conference. She outlines proposals to reduce local authority power including introducing grant-maintained schools and speaks on law and order and nuclear disarmament.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Emma Udwin

Keywords

Local authorities; Education; Conservative Party; Political conferences; USSR; Council housing; Conferences; Schools; Arms control; State security; Nuclear disarmament; Blackpool; Grant maintained schools

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