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The election was lost not in the three weeks of the campaign but in the three years which preceded it...in that period the Party itself acquired a highly unfavourable public image, based on disunity, extremism, crankiness and general unfitness to govern.

Denis Healey, 11 September 1983

Observer

It's a result that will reverberate through our history. Its consequences will outlive most of us here tonight.

Margaret Thatcher, 10 June 1983

On the night of thr 1983 General Election

If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I want you not to be old.

Neil Kinnock, June 1983

Denis Healey: You're going to cut and run

Margaret Thatcher: The Right Honourable Gentleman is afraid of an election is he? He is frightened, frightened, frit!

Margaret Thatcher, May 1983

The longest suicide note in history.

Gerald Kaufman, 30 March 1983

Describing the 1983 Labour manifesto.

Daily Telegraph

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

Roy Hattersley, March 1983

New Socialist