Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Speech to Conservative Women’s Conference

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Central Hall, Westminster
Source: (1) Thatcher Archive: CCOPR 585/77 (2) Daily Telegraph, 26 May 1977
Journalist: (2) David Harris, Daily Telegraph, reporting
Editorial comments: Available on CD-ROM only. Embargoed until 1515. No fuller text has been found. The Times has a variant of one of MT’s remarks as reported in the Daily Telegraph: "We are a nation of small capitalists with a pretty good sense of decency and fair play". A sentence at the end of the speech has been added from BBC Radio News Report 2331 25 May 1977 (see editorial notes in text). Transcript of an interview by David Harris published in the Daily Telegraph on 26 May 1977 and reproduced with permission of David Harris and the Telegraph Group Limited.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1560
Themes: Conservatism