Title

Defence expenditure, arms sales trip and Belgrano sinking

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Nov 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:52

Description

Paul Maurice interviews UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, on public expenditure on defence and planning for future defence budgets; trip to Saudi Arabia to sell military equipment; report on controversial sinking of Belgrano, an Argentinian warship, in the Falkands War.

Contributors

Michael Heseltine; Paul Maurice

Keywords

Budgets; Shipwrecks; Reports; Government; UK; Conservative Party; Public finance; Arms sales; Defence; Saudi Arabia; Defence policy; Public expenditure; Falklands War (1982); Argentina; Warships; Economic forecasting; Belgrano

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