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24 results found for '"Michael Mates"' in Contributors.
Changes to Labour leadership selection process (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Conservative MP, Michael Mates) on changes in the Labour Party leadership selection process which will involve the National Executive Committee and therefore the unions. He...
Labour conference - Tory observer (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Michael Mates MP, Conservative Party observer, interviewed at the 1980 Labour Party conference in Blackpool, on the differences between the party conferences. The interview is intended to form the basis for...
Decision makers (1984)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Decision Makers: Plans for Northern Ireland after New Ireland Forum Report, presented by Terry Dignan. Documentary on a scheme to bring peace to Northern Ireland following the New Ireland Forum Report with...
Decision makers (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary
Decision Makers, presented by Peter Spencer. Documentary on the information that the Government holds on the public, and the fact that this information is private. Civil rights campaigners have put together...
Northern Ireland documentary row (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the viewing by politicians and journalists and reaction to the controversial BBC television documentary Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union, about political extremism in Northern Ireland, in which...
Michael Mates on Heseltine resignation (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine’s principal supporter throughout the Westland Helicopters affair, Michael Mates MP, says Heseltine felt gagged within the Cabinet. Heseltine tried to keep the Prime...
Debate on Patrick Ryan affair (1988)
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- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Peter Murphy reports on Parliamentary reaction to the Belgian Government’s decision to refuse the extradition to Britain of IRA suspect, Father Patrick Ryan. Includes speeches by Margaret Thatcher; Michael...
Death of Ian Gow - Michael Mates reaction (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; Tribute
Michael Mates MP, Chairman of the Select Committee on Defence and Chairman of the All Party Anglo-Irish Group, reacts to the death this morning of Conservative MP Ian Gow. Gow was killed by an IRA car...
Colin Wallace affair to be investigated (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Peter Spencer reports from Westminster that the Colin Wallace or Clockwork Orange affair (undercover campaign in the 1970s over Northern Ireland) is to be investigated by the all party Commons Defence...
Peter Terry shooting (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Havovi Todd reports on the shooting of the former Governor General of Gibraltar, Sir Peter Terry, by an IRA cell believed to be operating in the Midlands. Includes reaction from Bill Cash MP; Michael Mates...