Speech to Federation of Conservative Students Conference
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Loughborough |
| Source: | (1) Daily Telegraph, 13 April 1978 (2) Yorkshire Post, 13 April 1978 |
| Journalist: | (1) John Izbicki, Daily Telegraph, reporting |
| Editorial comments: | Available on CD-ROM only. c1130. No press release was issued and no speaking text has been found; MT probably spoke from notes. Additional material: Guardian, 13 April 1978, has MT saying that people talked too much about racialism. "I think if they talked less about it, there would be less of it". She said that people were trying to "work things up rather than calm them down". She also said that the party’s proposed register of immigrants was not discriminatory. "It was a practical matter. There was a problem of dependents in the Indian sub-continent, so that was where a register was suggested" (indirect speech). The Daily Mail, 13 April 1978: "Meeting her critics head on, she declared to stormy applause: "Whatever the differences between us, there is no difference when it comes to the battle ahead between what we believe in and socialism". Transcript of an interview by John Izbicki published in |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 1245 |
| Themes: | Conservative Party (organization), Labour Party & socialism, Race, immigration, nationality |