SDP conference - disagreement over nuclear energy policy
- Title
- SDP conference - disagreement over nuclear energy policy
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 15 Sep 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:03:05
- Description
- Report on the Social Democratic Party conference delegates’ support for nuclear energy, in opposition to their Liberal Party allies who would like nuclear power to be phased out. Includes excerpts of speeches by John Watkinson of Gloucestershire; Margaret Cooper of Nottinghamshire; working party chairman Sir Leslie Murphy; working party member Tom Burke; and SDP trade unionist John Grant. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- John Grant; Leslie Murphy; Tom Burke; John Watkinson; Margaret Cooper
- Keywords
- Politics; Political conferences; Liberal Party; Yorkshire; David Owen; Political parties; Conferences; Nuclear energy; SDP; Harrogate; Nuclear energy policy
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