“There is nothing I would not do for my country,” Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told 200 members of the Finchley and Friern Barnet Conservative Association at their annual dinner dance held at Selbourne Hall, Southgate.
Mrs Thatcher, wearing an emerald green two-piece evening suit, reminded her audience the Conservatives' success in the General Election last year marked not only her return for a historic third term as Prime Minister, but also her ninth election victory in Finchley.
She said the Government's course had never been to take the easy option and do something just because it would be popular, but rather to look to the future and do what was right for the country.
Mrs Thatcher described the reduction of the burden of taxation as one of the government's greatest achievements, giving freedom of choice back to the individual.
Referring to recent press coverage of the NHS debate she criticised the “selective propaganda” which ignored the increased public expenditure on health care and did little justice to the hard work, skill and dedication of doctors and nurses who were performing record numbers of operations and caring for the highest ever number of patients.
Finchley Conservatives' constituency chairman, Ron Thurlow, praised Mrs Thatcher for passing the historic milestone of becoming the century's longest-serving Prime Minister and said local Conservatives could not be more proud of their Member of Parliament.