LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Liberal Party Assembly - David Steel on allocation of seats

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Sep 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:02:32

Description

Peter Spencer interviews Liberal leader David Steel at the 1982 party assembly in Bournemouth, where Steel talks about the allocation of seats between the Liberals and the Social Democrats as part of the coalition arrangement between the two parties and about the opposition to the proposals by some delegates including Michael Meadowcroft, Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Leeds West.

Contributors

Peter Spencer; David Steel

Keywords

Elections; Political conferences; Liberal Party; Political parties; Conferences; SDP; SDP-Liberal Alliance; Bournemouth; Political coalitions; Parliamentary candidates; Political leaders; Michael Meadowcroft; Bournemouth Pavilion

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