Basically she denounced as wicked liars those who claimed that there were government plans for massive closures of coalmines. Government papers now released because of a rule that after 30 years that had to be have demonstrated beyond any question that such plans had been prepared, and this was the settled ambition of the government.

And that was precisely what happened after the strike by the miners had been defeated. There is now no coalmining industry in Britain.

True enough Tony Blair lied in his turn. Essentially he was a Thatcherite in this as in most other things.