Margaret Thatcher Outside A Polling Station Referendum Day 5th June

Margaret Thatcher Outside A Polling Station Referendum Day 5th June Margaret thatcher, leader of the conservative opposition, leaving the polling station on the occasion of the popular referendum, held on 5 june 1975, to decide on whether or not the united kingdom should remain a member of the european communities. Our picture shows, referendum day, 5th june 1975. mrs anna williams aged 102, personally delivers her yes vote to swansea’s referendum returning officer. margaret thatcher, sporting a sweater bearing the flags of european nations, in parliament square during her ‘yes to europe’ campaign. mps at westminster rehearsing their song nine nein.

Britain S Premier And Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher Voting in the referendum took place across the united kingdom on thursday 5 june between 07:00 and 22:00 bst. all counting areas started their counts the following day on friday 6 june at 09:00 bst, and the final result was announced just before 23:00 bst by the chief counting officer (cco) sir philip allen at earls court exhibition centre in. Margaret thatcher campaigning for a yes vote in the 1975 referendum on europe back in the present day we've seen prominent figures feel the pressure of major television debates this week. The result, on 5 june 1975, was britain’s first national referendum. yet if all this looks familiar, in other respects, looking back on 1975 is like entering a parallel universe. constitutional monstrosity. forty years ago, it was the conservative party that was most enthusiastically pro european, under its new leader, margaret thatcher. Robert saunders, a historian at queen mary university of london, is quite right to point out that the 1975 european referendum campaign has been badly underplayed by modern historians. they have focused more on ted heath’s struggle to get britain into the community in 1972, and then on the growing rise of anti brussels politics during the.