Conservative conference - Margaret Thatcher speech
- Title
- Conservative conference - Margaret Thatcher speech
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- Oct 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:04:02
- Description
- Emma Udwin reports on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s well-received keynote speech at the 1987 Blackpool Conservative Party conference. She outlines proposals to reduce local authority power including introducing grant-maintained schools and speaks on law and order and nuclear disarmament.
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher; Emma Udwin
- Keywords
- Local authorities; Education; Conservative Party; Political conferences; USSR; Council housing; Conferences; Schools; Arms control; State security; Nuclear disarmament; Blackpool; Grant maintained schools
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