Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Remarks visiting Glasgow Garscaden (by-election)

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Drumchapel Housing Estate, Garscaden, Glasgow
Source: Daily Mail, 6 March 1978
Journalist: James Grylls, Daily Mail, reporting
Editorial comments: Available on CD-ROM only. Time of day unknown. The report includes material from MT’s press conference later in the day. Additional material: BBC Radio News Report 1800 5 March 1978 (on Socialist Worker protesters - "They’ve lost the argument so they just have to shout"); The Times (Government halving value of the pound in four years - "No other Government has ever doubled prices in that time, which was the same thing"); Financial Times has material in indirect speech (rate of price increases would fall until July but then rise again; government achievement in reducing inflation to single figures merely meant that the value of money would halve every eight years instead of every four).
Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 417
Themes: Monetary policy, Labour Party & socialism