Title

Tom King on defence budget cuts

Genre

Interview

TX Date

19 Jun 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:58

Description

Phil Edwards interviews Defence Secretary Tom King about the proposed budget cuts in the Ministry of Defence of £600 million due to thawing of the Cold War and inflation and how that will affect thousands of jobs in the UK. He insists the vast majority of defence workers will remain unscathed.

Contributors

Tom King; Phil Edwards

Keywords

Budgets; Inflation; Cost reduction; Unemployment; Defence; Ministry of Defence; Redundancies

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