- Enoch Powell’s speech inflamed anti-immigrant feeling across the country
- Enoch Powell told of an old woman who was the ‘only white woman living in her street’ – “she was becoming afraid to leave her house”
- Reporters and the Newspaper Industry found no old woman to support the story – she didn’t exist
- Powell was fired
- Thatcher thought that the public jumped to conclusions too rapidly as they should have listened to the logic and reason
- 88% of people in Slough supported Powell
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