LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Pre-budget Cabinet meeting

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

20 Oct 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:33

Description

Report on Chancellor Kenneth Clarke’s Budget and threatened rebellion by backbench MPs with opposition in a pre-Budget Cabinet meeting if he increases income tax. Speakers are Kenneth Clarke; Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and economic advisor Andrew Britton; Labour Party leader John Smith; Prime Minister John Major; Conservative Chairman of the All Party Backbench Treasury Committee John Watts. Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports. Sound is in mono.

Contributors

John Watts; Kenneth Clarke; John Major; John Smith; Kevin Murphy; Andrew Britton

Keywords

Budgets; Politics; Taxation; National budgets; Income tax

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