Sentences with phrase «poll tax riots»

I don't really remember the Poll Tax riots toward the tail end of Thatcher's government.

Tory support didn't fall below 28 % in the immediate wake of the poll tax riots.

One experienced officer claimed the violence seen outside parliament as MPs voted to back the tuition fees hike was worse than that seen in the Poll Tax riots, Sir Paul claimed.

All the relevant codewords are inserted in the text, from «the lessons of the 1980s» to a dig at those nostalgics — again unnamed — who «believe that the poll tax riots and civil unrest brought down the last Tory government».

I can still remember the miners» strikes and the poll tax riots.