Results
39,247 results found for all records.
General election - help for black businesses discriminating? (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Up to 10,000 pounds will be available to black people setting up new businesses, and those already operating one can get 6,000 pounds for every new job they create, as part of a new scheme introduced by the...
General election - Thatcher on the health service (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
Labour leader Michael Foot attacks Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over NHS prescription charges; Thatcher responds. David Steel of the SDP-Liberal Alliance says that if the unions are too close to the...
General election - Parliamentary debate (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Richard Dallyn reports on a debate between Labour Party leader Michael Foot and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Parliament. Foot criticises Thatcher about levels of inflation and unemployment, and over...
General election - Jenkins on SDP-Lib manifesto (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
SDP leader Roy Jenkins claims that the Conservative Party is responsible for the biggest increase in unemployment in Britain’s economic history. Labour deputy leader Denis Healey says it is important to...
General election - Party campaigns (1983)
- Genre
- News report
Richard Dallyn reports on the general election campaigns of the major parties, and the policies they will be adopting.
General election - Labour manifesto published (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the publication of the Labour Party election manifesto, with its stated main aim being to reduce unemployment to less than a million in five years. Includes excerpt from ITN interview with Prime...
General election - Thatcher rallies workers (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Conservative Party headquarters to rally party workers for the forthcoming general election. Industry Secretary Patrick Jenkin has said an economic recovery is still...
General election - Michael Foot on Conservative manifesto (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Labour Party leader Michael Foot says the Conservative Party manifesto oozes complacency. Roy Jenkins, leader of the Social Democrats, criticises the manifestos of both the Tories and the Labour Party....
General election - Labour Party manifesto (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified Scottish male politician (poss. Communist Party) comments on the Labour Party manifesto. Female interviewer not identified.
General election - Michael Foot on unemployment (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Labour Party leader Michael Foot, speaking in Oxford, targets Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government for the rise in unemployment. Speaking in London, Thatcher responds by saying that unemployment...