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Margaret Thatcher on European monetary union (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
Margaret Thatcher PM speech excerpt on European Economic and Monetary Union, speaking at a Lord Mayors Banquet. Says she won’t set a timetable for Uk membership.
Margaret Thatcher giving cricket analogy (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
Margaret Thatcher speech excerpt at a Lord Mayors Banquet giving a cricket analogy regarding her leadership challenge.
Thatcher speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
Report on Margaret Thatchers speech at a Lord Mayors Banquet. Includes excerpts giving a cricket analogy regarding her leadership challenge and on timetable for European economic and monetary union. Male...
Piper Alpha disaster report (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech
Helen Costello reports for LBC Newstalk Breakfast from Aberdeen on the Lord Cullen report into the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and its recommendations, and whether Occidental Petroleum should be prosecuted....
Michael Heseltine on Britain and the European money markets (1990)
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- News report; Speech
Speech by Conservative MP Michael Heseltine, in which he stressed that Britain must have a place in the European money markets. He also re-floated former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson’s...
Sir Geoffrey Howe attacks Thatcher administration (1990)
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- News report; Speech
Former deputy prime minister Sir Geoffrey Howe gives his first public statement after his resignation. He warns that Britain faces isolation from the European market, accusing Prime Minister Margaret...
Michael Heseltine announces his Conservative leadership challenge (1990)
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- Press conference; Speech
Two linked clips (possibly continuous) in which Conservative MP Michael Heseltine announces his challenge for the party leadership.
Margaret Thatcher addresses Commons on leadership challenge (1990)
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- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses the House of Commons for the first time since the leadership challenge made by Michael Heseltine. Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown quotes Thatcher from a...
Archbishop Runcie on the Just War (1990)
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- Speech
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, on the concept of the Just War in the context of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. United Nations sanctions against Iraq must be given time to work. Yet, he says,...
Gulf crisis - US attitudes (1990)
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- News report; Speech; Vox pop
US President George H. W. Bush defends his stance on the Gulf situation in an interview on the CNN news network, while anti-war protesters, including Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, voice concern over the...