| Summary: | DO talks about SDP and Liberal Party successes in local elections and Tory and Labour votes coming to the SDP-Liberal Alliance. Moves on to talk about reasons for voters switching to the Conservatives with particular reference to trade unions and unemployment in 1979 and defence and national security in 1983. Also makes reference to the GCHQ affair and the miners' dispute; relations with the Soviet Union, star wars, the arms race and nuclear weapons; unemployment (DO says he is one of the moaning minnies referred to by the prime minister) and economic measures to curb this; social disturbances and the riots in Birmingham. |
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