Results
14,859 results found for all records.
General Election - Party campaigns (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on campaigning in the UK 1983 General Election by the three main political parties. Speakers include: Labour leader Michael Foot (following newspaper reports predicting his resignation); Social...
General Election - Opinion polls (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Press conference; Interview
Peter Spencer reports on the results of the latest opinion polls, a week before the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Roy Jenkins, Social Democratic Party leader; Cecil Parkinson, Conservative...
General Election - Michael Foot resignation rumours (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Richard Dallyn reports on rumours that Labour leader Michael Foot will resign after the forthcoming 1983 General Election; also on allegations about proposed Conservative privatisation of the National Health...
General Election - Employment policies (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report on campaigning in the 1983 General Election with the main parties concentrating on the issue of unemployment. Speakers include Social Democratic Party president Shirley Williams; Chancellor, Sir...
General Election - Denis Healey controversy (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on a pre-General Election controversy over remarks made by Labour deputy leader Denis Healey suggesting that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gloried in slaughter following Britain’s military...
General Election - (Mr) Margaret Thatcher goes to court (1983)
- Genre
- News report
Tim Crook reports on a High Court case, prior to the 1983 General Election, involving a would-be parliamentary candidate named Margaret Thatcher (formerly Colin Hanoman) who had planned to stand against the...
General Election - Unemployment figures (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Government’s latest unemployment figures prior to the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Norman Tebbit, Employment Secretary; Eric Varley, Labour employment spokesman. Female reporter...
General Election - Unemployment figures (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Report on the Government’s latest unemployment figures prior to the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Norman Tebbit, Employment Secretary; Eric Varley, Labour employment spokesman; Shirley Williams,...
General Election - Fringe parties (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the various fringe candidates and parties in the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Jonathon Porritt, Ecology Party; John Spencer, Workers’ Revolutionary Party; Martin Webster, National...
General Election - Opinion polls (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the latest opinion polls prior to the 1983 General Election showing a fall in the Labour vote and a rise in support for the SDP-Liberal Alliance; also examines the issue of unemployment and the...