Speeches, etc.

Margaret Thatcher

Speech to Hale Conservatives (Knutsford by-election)

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: Conservative Club, Hale, Cheshire
Source: Daily Telegraph, 17 February 1979
Journalist: A.J. McIlroy and Stanley Goldsmith, Daily Telegraph, reporting
Editorial comments: Available on CD-ROM only. Early afternoon? Before the speech, she held a twenty-minute street corner meeting in Hale village, answering questions on union power, landlords and tenants, strikes, pensions and food prices (Altrincham Guardian, 22 February 1979). The Daily Telegraph report includes a full account of MT’s speech earlier in Knutsford. Transcript of an interview by A.J. McIlroy and Stanley Goldsmith published in the Daily Telegraph on 17 February 1979 and reproduced with permission of A.J. McIlroy and Stanley Goldsmith and the Telegraph Group Limited.
Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 608