Thatcher to head Bruges group (1)
01 January 1991
Thatcher to head Bruges group
artdoc May=1991
Statewatch no.1 March/April 1991
Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has agreed to become the president of the
anti-EC Bruges group and the No Turning Back group of rightwing Conservatives.
The Bruges group was founded in 1988 in the wake of Thatcher's anti-federalist
speech in Bruges, and has 130 Conservative MPs on its mailing list. Norman
Tebbitt said of her appointment: `At the end of the day she is speaking for the
right of the British people to run their own country in their own way'.
Sunday Times, 6.1.91; Guardian, 7.1.91.