IRN Journalist
A relatively relaxed day for Mrs. Thatcher, starting off with a trip in the Maggie battle bus up to her favourite motorway, the M25. She was opening its first service station at South Mimms. Not the most glamorous place to spend the weekend before polling day but its creator, the tycoon Lord Forte, rewarded her with lavish praise. “This wonderful woman that God sent from heaven” he said and she returned the compliment: “May I say” , she purred, “how much I love the style of Lord Forte” . But then some tougher words on the economy and a rather strange remark about how she's running a regime.
MT
Gradually under the regime that we are running more and more successful companies are being born, more and more are expanding, more and more jobs are being created.
IRN Journalist
From South Mimms to North London and a pep talk to some party workers, starting off with an attack on Labour's unilaterist defence policy.
MT
Some of you might remember when Gaitskell, a leader of the Labour Party, said he would “fight, fight, and fight again” to keep the nuclear deterrent. He fought. The people against whom he fought, their kind, are now in the leadership of the Labour Party [hear, hear] and they have in fact abandoned the very thing which everyone else said was vital.
IRN Journalist
Her final plea to the Tory faithful was that they must push to give the Tories a big majority:
MT
It is very important that we win, and it's very important that we win with a good majority because we simply must keep international confidence in our country that we're going on in the way which has transformed it, got rid of the British disease and made it respected the world over.
IRN Journalist
Mrs. Thatcher is now preparing for next week's economic summit in Venice, where she'll try to push the image of the world statesman, an image she hopes will be in the minds of voters as they go into the polling booths just a couple of days later.