LevelPiece
Ref NoLDG/1/8/100
Title"To the rescue, chaps! Her lovely little hands must be in a terrible state from tying all those knots!"
Date3 February 1989
Extent1 cartoon
Creator NameGibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist
DescriptionA woman labelled 'Public right to know' is being tied to the train tracks by Margaret Thatcher. A train labeled 'Official Secrets Bill' is coming towards her in the distance. Two figures [Neil Kinnock] rush to stop it. A crowd of people run out of a building labelled 'Tory Backbench Sycophants Club' towards Thatcher and the woman on the tracks.

Context: Tory backbenchers supported Thatcher's campaign to prevent Civil Service leaks despite the threat to the public's right to know (Source: Gibbard's Double Decade Omnibus)
Access StatusOpen
FormatDrawing

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