Thatcher response to Southall riots
- Title
- Thatcher response to Southall riots
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- 24 Apr 1979
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:03:34
- Description
- Speech by Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher to a meeting of Huddersfield Conservatives, in response to the Southall riots in West London and the death of teacher Blair Peach following clashes between Anti-Nazi League protesters and police. She also talks about her Party’s prospects in the forthcoming General Election.
- Further information
- http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104039
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher
- Keywords
- Deaths; Elections; Politics; London; Police; Conservative Party; Violence; Demonstrations; Political parties; Metropolitan Police; National Front; Blair Peach; Anti-Nazi League; Southall; Riots; Policing practice; General elections; Anti-nazi movements; Huddersfield
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