Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Remarks visiting Tottenham factory (union reform)

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Gestetner, Tottenham, London
Source: (1) BBC Radio News Report 1800 2 February 1979 (2) Evening Standard, 2 February 1979 (3) Evening News, 2 February 1979 (late edition) (4) ITN Archive: OUP transcript
Editorial comments: Available on CD-ROM only. Morning. The Daily Mail (3 February 1979) has additional material: "She ruled out a ban on strikes as unworkable without legislation and said a wage freeze was "something to be used in very great emergency and not at the end of an incomes policy". BBC and ITN archives have film of her talking about union reform and picketing - untraced.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 853
Themes: Trade union law reform