“Let me make one point about the hunger strike in the Maze prison. I want this to be utterly clear. There can be no political justification for murder or any other crime. The Government will never concede political status to the hunger strikers, or to any others convicted of criminal offences in the Province.”

Speech in the House of Commons (20 November 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104446 regarding the Irish hunger strike
First term as Prime Minister

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