Press Conference (European Elections)
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Conservative Central Office, Smith Square, Westminster |
| Source: | (1) Daily Telegraph, 7 June 1979 (2) Thatcher Archive: transcript (extract) (3) BBC Radio News Report 1300 6 June 1979 |
| Journalist: | (1) Tony Conyers, Daily Telegraph, reporting (3) Bill Frost, BBC, reporting |
| Editorial comments: | Available on CD-ROM only. 1030-1100. The Financial Times, 7 June 1979, has additional material: MT denied that she had suggested a defence role for the Community in her Birmingham speech on 2 June. "But she was suggesting closer cooperation between the EEC and NATO". The Guardian (7 June 1979) has her asserting the "historic importance" of the elections. She commented on Conservative links with other parties in the European Assembly: "The Centre and right-wing parties must stick together as I am constantly saying wherever I am in the world". She was not ruling out action to change some Common Market policy. Mrs Thatcher said: "We will fight our corner. But it is one thing to fight there corner, believing in the ideal you serve, it is another fighting a particular corner with a view to busting the whole thing up". Voting Labour would be bad for Britain and bad for E |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 1099 |
| Themes: | Conservative Party (organization), Defence (general), Elections & electoral system, European elections, European Union (general), Labour Party & socialism |