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83 results found for '"National economy"' in Keywords.
Budget speech by Denis Healey (1974)
- Genre
- Speech
UK Chancellor Denis Healey gives his Budget speech. It includes a rise in prices, an increase in pensions and family allowance, a rise in VAT on petrol, the price of oil, and what people need to do to help...
Harold Wilson on first year in government (1975)
- Genre
- Interview
Prime Minister Harold Wilson, interviewed on the current affairs television programme World in Action, speaking on his first year in government; the threat of economic disaster; inflation; his election...
James Callaghan on the future of the British economy (1976)
- Genre
- Speech
UK Prime Minister James Callaghan makes a speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, at the Mansion House in London, on the future of the British economy. The City of London, the CBI, the TUC and the Government...
James Callaghan at Lord Mayors Banquet (1977)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan (in 2 clips) at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on plans for the year, hopes for economic recovery, policies to improve economy, and the EEC.
Finance bill defeat (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer, talks about his concerns for the economy in the light of a government defeat on an amendment in the House of Commons. Geoffrey Howe had called for the government to...
Finance bill defeat (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe on the second Government defeat on an amendment to their finance bill in the House of Commons. He proposes that the top rates of income tax should be...
Sir Frank Marshall on his interim GLC report (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sir Frank Marshall on his interim report on the Greater London Council which concludes that the council is perceived as remote and spendthrift. Male interviewer not identified.
Denis Healey on economic policy (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Chancellor Denis Healey about Government economic policy, unemployment and inflation, and about a possible General Election date. Interviewer not heard.
Margaret Thatcher attacks Government record (1978)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate; Speech
Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher, speaking in the House of Commons, attacks Prime Minister James Callaghan and his government’s record in office. Thatcher covers the Government’s pay policy, the...
Roy Hattersley on economy (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Roy Hattersley about the UK economy, prices, and wage offers to unions, prior to the 1979 General Election.