Interviewer
I asked Mrs. Thatcher, amid a scrum of journalists, whether she felt new safety legislation would now be necessary.
Prime Minister
… so much legislation through and even now, you know, we just accepted, finally, the Popplewell Report and are putting through a National Membership Scheme to try to prevent so many people from coming to a ground which they know they cannot get it.
We will have to look yet again and I think we really want some preliminary findings, if that is possible, so that any further action can be taken.
You have seen these terraces for yourself and you have seen what happens.
I have been in crowds when we have had demonstrations. If you get a whole crush of people coming in&em;the ones at the front wanting them not to come forward and the ones at the back coming forward, you must have been in them&em;you are swept off your feet, you lose control, and that obviously is something to which the Inquiry will address its mind. It will obviously have to be very thorough but I hope they will be able to give some preliminary results so that we can learn very quickly for the next season.
But we will not have any hesitation. We have no difficulties in the House of Commons in putting through any legislation.