‘Extremists dominate Labour’

Opposition leader Mrs. Margaret Thatcher claimed at a Conservative party meeting in Ardrossan, Ayrshire on Saturday, that the Labour Party was becoming dominated by extremists.

“You see it all the time. The extremist group seemed to be growing in the Parliamentary Labour Party. You get a number of what is called moderate Labour MPs, and their constituencies try to tip them out and replace them with others of more extreme Left-wing viewpoints.

“More and more the Labour Party moves to being an extreme party, dominated by its extremists.

“In theory these others are in the majority and ought to say to the extremists: ‘Look, we are in the majority and we are going to have more moderate policies.’

“But in practice they are more obsessed with keeping that party together—although it is two parties, a Marxist Party and a Labour Party—that they are prepared to move towards the extremist side all the time, to keep it together.”