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  • General Election - Labour housing and transport policies for London (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Report on a press announcement by Bryan Gould MP, on Labour Party housing and transport policies (including deregulation of buses) in London prior to the 1987 General Election (excerpts heard). Female...

  • General Election - Battle in Richmond and Barnes (1987)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the General Election battle in Richmond and Barnes, London, where sitting Conservative Party MP, Jeremy Hanley is defending a 74 vote majority. Includes interviews with Jeremy Hanley; Alan Watson,...

  • 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 - 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 - Parties attack each other (1987)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Labour leader Neil Kinnock on unemployment, which he believes is the crucial issue in the General Election; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes a speech rallying the troops; Norman Tebbit urges everyone...

  • 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...