Conservative MP to live on dole for a week
- Title
- Conservative MP to live on dole for a week
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 9 Nov 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:02:39
- Description
- Report on Piers Merchant MP and his family living on the dole (social security payments) and in a council house for a week to prove that the dole provides an adequate income. Includes interview with Merchant in which he denies that it is a publicity stunt. His new neighbours comment. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Piers Merchant
- Keywords
- Social security; Council housing; Members of Parliament; Poverty; Dole; Politicians; Income; Piers Merchant
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