Thatcher Hints at an Early Election
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a clear hint Thursday that a general election may be expected shortly.
Discussing a proposal to set up youth training schemes for the unemployed, she said: “I think we will soon be putting to the electorate whether young people who neither stay on at school, nor stay on in education, nor take training, nor take a job, are entitled to receive supplementary benefit.”
Thatcher, seeking a record third consecutive term in office, is not obliged to call an election until June, 1988, but the universal prediction is that it will come earlier, with this June the likely time.
A recent poll showed her Conservatives 15-percentage-point favorites over the opposition.
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