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 06/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
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 11/09/1983
Category: 1983 General Election
The longest suicide note in history.
Gerald Kaufman 30/03/1983
Describing the 1983 Labour manifesto.
Category: 1983 General Election, Manifestos
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
Roy Hattersley 03/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Manifestos
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 05/1983
Category: 1983 General Election, Repartee
It's a result that will reverberate through our history. Its consequences will outlive most of us here tonight.
Margaret Thatcher 10/06/1983
On the night of thr 1983 General Election
Category: 1983 General Election
