The turbulent Labour Party of the 1980s
The Labour Party in the 1980s saw a stormy civil war that ended in purges as Tony McMahon remembers from a misspent youth
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Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives
Labour Party youth wings: NOLS and LPYS
NOLS and the LPYS were the two youth wings of the Labour Party in the 1970s and 1980s and they couldn’t have been more different
Thatcher: the lady is not for turning
At the 1980 Conservative Party conference Margaret Thatcher declared that the lady was not for turning but turn she did on economic policy