In January 1982, the Conservative Party of prime minister Margaret Thatcher was trailing in third place in the opinion polls, behind the Liberal-SDP Alliance, which stood at 40 per cent, and Labour at 30 per cent. By June of that year, the polls had been turned on their head: Labour were still second, but the Conservatives now had the approval of 51 per cent of the country.
The Falklands War had been fought between these polls, and the events in the South Atlantic, where Britain's naval taskforce had evicted the invading Argentinians
