Bob Smithies, Granada TV
The Granada 500 poll in the critical marginal, Bolton East, has the men overwhelmingly putting you behind Mr Callaghan in terms of intelligence, likebility, honesty and judgement. Now why, do you think, should the men feel like that about you?
MT
I don't know. It doesn't apply elsewhere, I assure you. But maybe they're a little bit shy here. And I think it is, you know, that they're very conservative with a small c, if I might put it that way. Certainly I find, completely different from the ladies here. As I came in here, they said “Oh, it's about time we had a woman” .
Bob Smithies, Granada TV
Would you think, with the men, it's perhaps chauvinism, with a capital C?
MT
[laughs] Well, no, I think just a little bit of prejudice.
Bob Smithies, Granada TV
Do you think, in fact, that what seems to be the middle class image of the Tory party is in fact getting through to the working class voter?
MT
But the Tory Party hasn't got a middle class image. The Tory Party is a party for people regardless of their background.
Bob Smithies, Granada TV
The polls show your leads steadily declining. Do you envisage now another hung Parliament?
MT
No I don't envisage another hung Parliament, and I really do want to warn against it, not just from my personal viewpoint, because what matters to me far more is the things I believe in. But I in the last three or four years have seen so much wheeling and dealing, manipulating and manoeuvring, not what's best for Britain, not let's get on with sorting some of the long term problems, but what can get us through this vote tonight until next week. What do we have to offer to which party. It's no way to run a country.