Results
28,816 results found for all records.
General Election - Attack on Labour offices (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Pre-General Election interview with the Labour Party candidate in Hackney North, London, Diane Abbott, on an attack on the party offices in Stoke Newington. She says the attack was racially motivated. Female...
General Election - Results in London (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on results in London in the 1987 General Election. Interviews with victorious Labour candidates Bernie Grant, Tottenham and Ken Livingstone, Brent East; victorious Conservative Jeremy Hanley, Richmond...
General Election - Dulwich results (1987)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report
Report on the close result in Dulwich, London during the 1987 General Election, where there were three recounts and votes for the Green Party may have affected the outcome. Includes recording of result and...
General Election - Conservative election manifesto (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
The Conservatives have presented their 1987 election policies in a 77-page document. Party chairman Norman Tebbit, SDP leader David Owen, Labour leader Neil Kinnock, and Labour education spokesman Giles...
General Election - Pre-election campaigns, Week 1 (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Phone-in
Summary (with excerpt) of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s pre-election radio phone-in. Thatcher is not doing well in the polls; neither are the Liberals, who are hoping for a surge in floating voters....
General Election - Rainbow Alliance has a new approach for Britain (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
In the run-up to the General Election, George Weiss outlines the policies of the Rainbow Alliance. Female interviewer not identified.
General Election - Parties attack each other in run-up (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Neil Kinnock attacks the Government over unemployment; Kenneth Clarke attacks Labour and the SDP-Liberal Alliance, and the latter rubbish Labour plans. David Steel and David Owen talk about defence. Neil...
General Election - Attack and counter-attack (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
All the major political parties have published their manifestos in the run-up to the General Election, to take place on 11/06/87. In this report, party leaders extol the virtues of their own policies, and...
General Election - Rainbow Alliance party policies (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Rainbow Alliance party chairman George Weiss outlines the party’s manifesto for the 1987 General Election. One of the party’s policies is to take all cash out of circulation; another is to write off all...
General Election - Political backbiting (1987)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report; Press conference
According to the pollsters, the Conservative Party were heading for a landslide victory in the General Election, but now a hung Parliament seems possible. Includes excerpt from 1983 Brian Hayes interview...