Title

Labour conference - Tony Benn on Northern Ireland

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:02:43

Description

Report on a speech (including excerpts) by Labour MP Tony Benn at a fringe meeting during the 1980 Labour Party conference in Blackpool calling for Britain to withdraw from Northern Ireland and for a united Ireland. Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Murphy?).

Contributors

Tony Benn; Peter Murphy?

Keywords

Politics; Internal politics; Labour Party; Armed forces; Northern Ireland; Ireland; UK; Political conferences; Political parties; Conferences; Republicanism; Peacebuilding; Tony Benn; Blackpool; Governance

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