The first Conservative Party conference I attended was in 1946.

You will understand I know the humility I feel, at following in the footsteps of great men like our leader that year, Winston Churchill, oh, a man called by destiny who raised the name of Britain to supreme heights in the history of the free world. We are coming, I think, to yet another turning point in our long history.

We can go on as we have been going and continue down. Or we can stop, and with a decisive act of

will, we can say enough. Let us, all of us here today and others far beyond this hall, who believe in our cause, make that act of will.

Let us proclaim our faith in a new and better future for our party and our people.

Let us resolve to heal the wounds of a divided nation and let that act of healing be the prelude to a lasting victory.

So that was Margaret Thatcher and it was her first speech to the Conservative Party conference as

leader and she delivered it on the 10th of October 1975 and astute listeners will have recognised

that Mrs Thatcher there did not sound like she did later with her deep, masculine voice and her slow, steady elocution,

because at this point she hadn't actually had the elocution lessons that gave her that voice.

At this point, and I think I'm right, anti-Dominic in saying this, she had a much shriller, faster, less controlled voice.

And so through the medium of vocal impression, I have conveyed the transformation that was to come later in Mrs. Satchez's career.

Do you why, I really take my hat off to you there, because I had anticipated you would do it in the husky voice.

It had never occurred to me that you wouldn't, and you brought to it a level of nuance that I had anticipated you would do it in the husky voice. It had never occurred

to me that you wouldn't and you brought to it a level of nuance that I had not anticipated.

Thank you. And what makes that even better is actually I've got a really violent cold. So my,

my voice is naturally more deep than it is. And it's a great speech, isn't it? Because you've got

complete Thatcher bingo there. You've got the invocation of

Winston. You've got the patriotism. You've got the apocalyptic sense of national decline.

You've got the talk of faith. You've got the talk of healing, of victory. And that's what she is.

This kind of colossal figure in whose shadow all of us who grew up through the

late 70s and 80s spent our childhood and our youth. Yeah, you're not wrong. I mean, she became

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