Remarks on Southend East by-election victory | Margaret Thatcher Foundation

Document type:	Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue:	Selby
Source:	BBC Radio News Report 1300 14 March 1980
Journalist:	Gerald Butt, BBC, reporting
Editorial comments:	Exact time and place unknown. The item has been summarised, but MT’s words are given in full.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	273
Themes:	Executive (appointments), By-elections

Editorial summary of material; MT's words included in full:MT visiting a mine in the Selby coalfield remarked that the Southend by-election had been a victory, a thing for which there was no substitute. But she expressed one reservation.

Thatcher

Well, I would have preferred that we had a bigger majority but heavens knows, I've been on the other side in this and I know that the thing that really counts is whether you win or lose and Teddy TaylorTeddy won, and I think he'll be a great asset again to the House of Commons.

MT declined to speculate as to a cabinet job for Teddy Taylor, saying that he would need time to settle in as an MP again. A huge police presence kept 200 protesting miners and steelworkers well at bay.