Entering - then leaving - the single market: May and Thatcher's EU speeches compared

0

12

Immigration /

migration /

migrant

11

44

Single

market

53

82

Trade /

trading /

business

118

121

European

Union /

Europe / EU

Theresa

May

17 January 2017

Margaret

Thatcher

18 April 1988

143

82

Britain /

UK /

country

44

0

82

121

82

Theresa May

17 January 2017

Margaret Thatcher

18 April 1988

11

12

53

118

143

Single

market

Immigration /

migration /

migrant

Trade /

trading /

business

European

Union /

Europe / EU

Britain /

UK /

country

Methodology: as May's speech, at 6,373 words, runs at 5.48 times the length of Thatcher's (at 1,162), each word or phrase used by Thatcher has been multiplied by that factor for the purposes of comparison.

Thatcher’s speech used the words ‘Britain’/’country’ 15 times; ‘European Community’/’European Union’/’Europe’ 22 times; ‘trade’/’business’ 15 times; and ‘single market’ eight times