Catalogue Number
NMLH.1995.39.449
Object Name
Poster
Title
TORIES HELP THE RICH LABOUR HELPS THE REST
Date
1981
Description
2 posters featuring a Rolls Royce
OSP: This poster is a reprint of one previously issued in 1971.
OSP script: Tories Help the Rich poster, 1981.
Under Margaret Thatcher's government the gap between rich and poor began to widen in Britain. Mass unemployment led to hardship in many industrial areas and Labour seized the issue of inequality to rally its traditional support.
