LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Commons speeches on Tory leadership contest

Genre

News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:47

Description

Paul Rowley reports from Westminster for LBC Newstalk Breakfast on a debate in the Commons following Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s return from a world security summit in Paris which kept turning to the Conservative Party leadership challenge. Includes speeches by Thatcher; Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown; Speaker, Bernard Weatherall; Roger Knapman; Dennis Skinner; Geoffrey Dickens; Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Neil Kinnock; Dennis Skinner; Paul Rowley; Paddy Ashdown; Geoffrey Dickens; Bernard Weatherill; Roger Knapman

Keywords

Elections; Internal politics; Margaret Thatcher; France; Political leadership; Michael Heseltine; Prime ministers; Summits (meetings); Paris

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