Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

TV Interview for ITN (expulsions from Soviet Union)

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Unknown
Source: Thatcher Archive: transcript (extract)
Journalist: John Suchet, ITN
Editorial comments: Time and place uncertain. The full interview cannot be traced.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 118

We had to do these expulsions, obviously they were doing things here which no other country should do and we had to be firm and put them out. We gave the Soviet Union the chance not to publicise it hoping that they would not artifically just turn out some of our people there. There has been no such activity over there. We gave them the choice to say things have changed as we hoped they might have done. They did not take this chance and have showed us that things have not changed as much as we thought. That was a very very significant decision.

I [sic] have handed us a propaganda coup. You, in spite of all this new image, this new face, this new slickness, this new presentation, you have not changed.