Speech in Ipswich
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Outside Ipswich Town Hall, Cornhill, Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Source: | (1) Ipswich Evening Star, 19 April 1979 (2) Anglia TV Archive: OUP transcript |
| Editorial comments: | Available on CD-ROM only. After a brief walkabout in the town centre MT took the microphone from the local Conservative candidate and spoke off the cuff. David Harris for the Daily Telegraph, 19 April 1979, reported that she made "a short, impromptu, confident electioneering speech to a crowd of shoppers and passers-by, as well as Tory supporters from the steps of the Town Hall. " We are going to win", was her message". See also Stephen Fay in the Spectator, 28 April 1979: "Her speech was not original; it contained nothing more complicated than statements about prices and unemployment, an appeal for the restoration of British prestige, and ended with a trite remark about it being time for a change. But it was about politics. "It was like being on the hustings thirty years ago", enthused one of her entourage a few days later. ..." |
| Importance ranking: | Minor |
| Word count: | 766 |