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  • London hospitals shake-up (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate

    Former Tory cabinet minister Peter Brooke poses questions to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley in the Commons, over her plans to re-organise London hospital services into fewer, larger hospitals.

  • London hospitals shake-up (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate

    Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes poses questions to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley in the Commons, on her proposed closure of London hospitals including Guys and St Barts in a re-organisation and asks...

  • Cash for questions exposed (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Following the Sunday Times’s cash-for-questions expose that Conservative MPs David Tredinnick and Graham Riddick had accepted £1000 a piece to ask parliamentary questions, the House of Commons decides...

  • Lottery money to buy Churchill letters (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Political editor Ed Boyle on Question Time in the House of Commons, concerning the controversial purchase of former prime minister Winston Churchill’s wartime letters for the nation with lottery money....

  • Tony Blair on NHS (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate

    Labour leader Tony Blair attacks Tory government health policy in the Commons; says it should be a national service, not split up into local services. Sound is in mono.

  • John Major on nurses pay dispute (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate

    Prime Minister John Major speaking in the Commons, defending wage settlements for nurses nationally and locally. Sound is in mono.

  • Attacks in Croatia (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Speech in House of Commons by UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd about rocket attacks on Croatia by Serbian forces; need for negotiated settlement.

  • Attacks in Croatia (1995)

    Genre
    Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Speech in House of Commons by shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook about rocket attacks on Croatia by Serbian forces.

  • Nolan report (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Ed Boyle reports on the recommendations of the Nolan Report on sleaze in UK politics. Includes archive speech by John Major, Prime Minister setting up the Nolan committee; Lord Nolan on first day of...

  • Michael Howard on criminal justice system (1995)

    Genre
    Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Speech in House of Commons by Home Secretary Michael Howard on proposed changes to the criminal justice system so that defence lawyers must disclose their argument before the trial begins.