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- "The lady's not for turning" was a phrase used by Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference on 10 October 1980. The term has thus been applied as a name to the speech in its entirety. It is considered a defining speech in Thatcher's political development, becoming something of a Thatcherite motto. The phrase made reference to Thatcher's refusal to perform a "U-turn" in response to opposition to her liberalisation of the economy, which some commentators as well as her predecessor as Conservative leader Edward Heath had urged, mainly because unemployment had risen to 2 million by the autumn of 1980 from 1.5 million the previous year and the economy was in recession, with unemployment exceeding 3 million by the time the recession ended in 1982. It was written by the playwright Sir Ronald Millar, who had been Thatcher's speech-writer since 1973, and was a pun on the 1948 play The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry, although Thatcher missed the reference herself. Millar had intended the "you turn if you want to" line, which preceded it, to be the most popular, and it received an ovation itself, but it was "the lady's not for turning" that received the headlines. At the time, Thatcher was already being referred to as the "Iron Lady", which originated from a Soviet journalist. The speech as a whole was very warmly received at the conference, and received a five-minute standing ovation. (en)
- The lady's not for turning var en fras i ett den brittiske högerpolitikern Margaret Thatchers mest kända politiska tal, under hennes första period som premiärminister, och som även kommit att beteckna talet ifråga som helhet. Talet hölls den 10 oktober 1980 och med ordvalet ville hon markera att hon inte avsåg att göra någon politisk U-sväng bort från liberaliseringspolitiken, vilket ett antal kommentatorer och även Konservativa partiets förra partiledare Ted Heath krävt. Kritikerna, inklusive personer i det egna partiet, betonade att arbetslösheten hade ökat från 1.5 miljoner till 2 miljoner under det sista året och att ekonomin var fallande. (sv)
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- The lady's not for turning var en fras i ett den brittiske högerpolitikern Margaret Thatchers mest kända politiska tal, under hennes första period som premiärminister, och som även kommit att beteckna talet ifråga som helhet. Talet hölls den 10 oktober 1980 och med ordvalet ville hon markera att hon inte avsåg att göra någon politisk U-sväng bort från liberaliseringspolitiken, vilket ett antal kommentatorer och även Konservativa partiets förra partiledare Ted Heath krävt. Kritikerna, inklusive personer i det egna partiet, betonade att arbetslösheten hade ökat från 1.5 miljoner till 2 miljoner under det sista året och att ekonomin var fallande. (sv)
- "The lady's not for turning" was a phrase used by Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister, in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference on 10 October 1980. The term has thus been applied as a name to the speech in its entirety. It is considered a defining speech in Thatcher's political development, becoming something of a Thatcherite motto. The speech as a whole was very warmly received at the conference, and received a five-minute standing ovation. (en)
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- The lady's not for turning (sv)
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