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Docklands bombing (1996)
- Genre
- Speech
Excerpt from Prime Minister John Major’s broadcast to the nation, following last Friday’s Docklands bombing. Major says the IRA has not moved forward, but Northern Ireland has. Sinn Fein and the IRA must...
Docklands bombing (1996)
- Genre
- Speech
Following the IRA bomb attack in London Docklands, Prime Minister John Major announces in the House of Commons that meetings between Sinn Fein and the Irish and British Governments have been called off.
Parliamentary round-up (1996)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Political correspondent Mark Demery reports on events in Parliament, with only 24 hours until the publication of the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq. His summary includes Labour MP Paul Flynn, calling...
Scott Report out today (1996)
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- Interview; News report; Speech
Ed Boyle reports on the pending publication - later this afternoon - of the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq and on Nicholas Lyell, Attorney General, who signed gagging orders. Key ministers have had...
Ian Lang on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate; Speech
House of Commons statement by President of the Board of Trade, Ian Lang, in which he claims that the findings of the Scott Report into the sale of weaponry to Iraq during the Gulf War absolves the...
Waldegrave on Scott Report (1996)
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- Speech
The government says there’s no need for ministers to resign over the arms-to-Iraq affair following the release of the Scott Report. One of the ministers at the centre of the allegations, Treasury Secretary...
Tony Blair on Scott Report (1996)
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- Speech
Labour is renewing its attack on the government over the findings of the Scott report. Party leader Tony Blair says the report reveals high level incompetence within the Conservative administration.
Philip Lawrence funeral (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
The family of murdered headmaster Philip Lawrence have led mourners at his funeral service at Ealing Abbey. The former West London headmaster was stabbed to death while trying to stop a struggle between...
George Mitchell on IRA violence (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Former US senator George Mitchell has been in London, and condemns the IRA’s resumption of violence and the London Docklands bombing, calling for a fresh ceasefire. Mitchell is still optimistic about the...
Parliamentary report: Scott Report, Northern Ireland and Sea Empress disaster (1996)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Parliamentary correspondent Robert Allen reports from Westminster, where Tony Blair attacks John Major (both heard) during Prime Minister’s Question Time after Chancellor Kenneth Clarke admitted his...