On This Day - What happened 9 June 1983 AD

The "Falklands factor", an economic recovery beginning early in 1982, and a bitterly divided opposition all contributed to Thatcher's second election victory in 1983.

At the age of thirty, he was elected as MP for Sedgefield in 1983; despite the party's landslide defeat at the general election.

The Labour Party campaigned in the 1983 general election on a commitment to withdraw from the EC without a referendum.