They were finally closed in 1982, when Mrs Thatcher was prime minister and Ms Long-Bailey was two years old. The Sunday Times also reports Ms Long-Bailey, an ally of Mr Corbyn, has over-egged the origins of her inspiration to get into politics. But Ms Long-Bailey, born in September 1979, would only have been two when the docks closed in 1982. A spokesman for Ms Long-Bailey told the Sunday Times: 'Rebecca, like many others in the north, saw first-hand the devastation created by Thatcher's brutal economic regime.' Ms Long-Bailey claimed to have worried about redundancies at Salford Docks in 1982 when she was only two years old.

Source: Daily Mail December 22, 2019 02:12 UTC