LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Conservative conference - Thatcher keynote speech

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

13 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:28

Description

Elena Curti reports on the keynote speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party conference in the Winter Gardens in Blackpool (with excerpts of speech). The speech included a defence of their economic policy; a scathing attack on Neil Kinnock’s new-look Labour Party and on comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury; on age discrimination in the workplace..

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Elena Curti

Keywords

Labour Party; Inflation; Conservative Party; Political conferences; Political parties; Conferences; Equal opportunity; Economic policy; Interest rates; Party politics; Neil Kinnock; Blackpool

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