“Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103443. The Labour government had entered into a Pact with the Liberal leader David Steel. <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition

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