Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Press Conference after General Election postponed

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Lichfield, Staffordshire
Source: (1) Daily Telegraph, 8 September 1978 (2) Guardian, 8 September 1978 (3) The Sun, 8 September 1978
Journalist: (1) Nicholas Comfort, Daily Telegraph, reporting (2) Michael White, Guardian, reporting (3) Colin Myler, The Sun, reporting
Editorial comments: Available on CD-ROM only. Around 1915. For more on the press conference see The Times coverage of MT’s speech a few minutes later to Lichfield Conservatives. There is also additional material in the Daily Mirror: "It’s Thatcher’s Law again. In politics the unexpected always happens. I don’t count my chickens before their hatched ... and they are all frightened chickens on the Government side. The real reason why Mr Callaghan isn’t going to have an election is because he knows he will lose". Western Morning News has MT saying to reporters "I really am very calm". Daily Mail, 8 September 1978: "All day some instinct told me not to cancel tomorrow’s programme. I never take anything for granted". Transcript of an article by Michael White published in The Guardian on 8 September 1978 and reproduced with the permission of Guardian and Observer News Services. Transcript of an interview by Nicholas Comfor
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1505
Themes: Autobiographical comments, General Elections