Title

Economic statistics - Tony Blair reaction

Genre

Interview

TX Date

13 Feb 1992

Year of production

1992

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:01:07

Description

Paul Rowley interviews UK Shadow Employment Secretary, Tony Blair, following financial statistics which show that an economic recovery is not occurring as the Government predicted. Unemployment has topped two point six million - its highest level for four years - and the seasonally adjusted rise in 01/92 was more than fifty-three thousand - the twenty-second successive monthly increase. Almost one million people have now lost their jobs in the last two years. Blair says the figures are a damning indictment of the Government’s economic strategy.

Contributors

Paul Rowley; Tony Blair

Keywords

Government; Labour Party; Economics; UK; Great Britain; Unemployment; Employment; Financial statistics; Economic statistics

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.