Mark Thatcher speaks out
NZPA Sydney Mark Thatcher, the son of Britain’s Prime Minister (Mrs Margaret Thatcher), yesterday lashed out at critics who have accused him of using the Thatcher name to promote his motor-racing activities. Thatcher, aged 27, is in .Australia en route to New
■ Zealand to compete in a motor race, and was : addressing a luncheon at the ■ Journalists’ Club in Sydney. , He said that he had been ■ accused by cynics of using ■ the Thatcher name, “but > when you are driving down ; the straight at Le Lians at 300km/h, at night, in the rain, mum can’t fix it if the ■ brakes fail.”
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Press, 24 September 1980, Page 40
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