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  • Lunch queues at the European Parliament (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Prue Keely reports on lunch queues at the new European Parliament. Includes speech by an unidentified British MP addressing the Parliament on the problem.

  • Common Agricultural Policy needs reform, says Callaghan (1979)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Labour Party leader James Callaghan gives a speech in Parliament in which he states that the Conservative Government needs to reform the Common Agricultural Policy.

  • Jeremy Thorpe trial witnesses (1979)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    House of Commons debate which focuses on the prosecution witnesses in the Jeremy Thorpe trial at the Old Bailey after allegations their evidence was denigrated because of the acceptance of newspaper...

  • Parliamentary debate including on Jeremy Thorpe trial (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on a House of Commons debate which focuses on the prosecution witnesses in the Jeremy Thorpe trial at the Old Bailey after allegations their evidence was denigrated because of acceptance of newspaper...

  • Jeremy Thorpe trial - Parliamentary debate (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on a House of Commons debate which focuses on the prosecution witnesses in the Jeremy Thorpe trial at the Old Bailey after allegations their evidence was denigrated because of the acceptance of...

  • Butter subsidy debate (1979)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Parliamentary debate featuring Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Peter Walker and his Labour shadow Roy Mason on a deal on the EEC butter subsidy following European negotiations in Luxembourg.

  • MPs’ pay rise (1979)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Parliamentary speech by Leader of the House of Commons Norman St John-Stevas, about contentious proposals for an increase in MPs’ salaries.

  • MPs’ pay rise (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on a Parliamentary debate about contentious proposals for an increase in MPs’ salaries following the recommendations of the Boyle Committee. Also contains debates on cuts in the Manpower Services...

  • PM’s question time - Whitelaw stands in (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Peter Murphy reports on Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons, with deputy leader Willie Whitelaw standing in for the absent Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who is at the Tokyo Summit....

  • Vietnamese refugee crisis (1979)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Parliamentary debate between Home Secretary Willie (William) Whitelaw and David Ennals, Labour home affairs spokesman about the international refugee crisis regarding the Vietnamese boat people .