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...Conservative opposition by the end of last year. A poll released last week by London's well-regarded Market and Opinion Research Institute showed that the Tories had leaped ahead of Labor by an impressive 55% to 36% and that for the first time ever Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher had surpassed Callaghan in personal popularity...
Confident that she has found a winning issue for elections that could take place this spring, Conservative Leader Margaret Thatcher toughened her stand against the unions. Said she: "If someone is inflicting injury, harm and damage, by God, I'll confront them...
...goal of a Thatcher government would be to limit union power by passing legislation to outlaw closed union shops and rule out secondary picketing in which striking workers can disable factories not directly involved in disputes. Many Britons sympathize; a Gallup poll showed that 84% of citizens felt that national trade unions were too powerful. It was their lowest popularity rating in 40 years of polling...
...crisis has proved to be something of a political bonus for the Conservative opposition and its shrewd leader, Margaret Thatcher. Because minority parties continue to support Callaghan's government, she has stopped short of calling for a vote of confidence that might topple Callaghan and conceivably lead to a Tory victory in a new election. But Thatcher has taken every opportunity to attack Callaghan for his handling of the unions. Last week, for example, she brandished a challenge: "You no longer have the courage to act. Will you not then at least have the courage to resign?" The Prime...
...Thatcher was reflecting growing resentment in the British electorate that has at times flared into violence. Picketing truck drivers were assaulted at a chocolate factory in Birmingham last week by a phalanx of umbrella-wielding female workers. At an oil depot in Aberdeen, a striker was accidentally run over and killed when a truck driver refused to halt for pickets...