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Thatcher local election rout avoided amid Labour surge
In London and across Britain Labour trounced the Conservatives in local elections, winning 89 councils as of 192 of 201 councils counted. Thatcher defended the result as a base for a future general vote, while Labour marked a nationwide rebuke amid high interest rates and the poll tax.
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London
Labor Party
Margaret Thatcher
Socialist Labor Party
Labor
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Press Assotimum
Tories
Bryan Gould
Thatcher
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Ealing
Neil Kinnock
Gould
James Callaghan
Portsmouth
Torbay
Gillingham
England
Scotland
British Broadcasting Corp
Gallup
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