Results
39,247 results found for all records.
General election - Margaret Thatcher campaign (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s election campaign. Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Spencer or Peter Murphy).
General election - Harvey Proctor resigns Billericay seat (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Conservative MP Harvey Proctor has resigned. Billericay Constituency Chairman Ron Turner reads Proctor’s letter of resignation. Proctor supporter Amanda Armand(?) praises her ex-MP tearfully. Constituency...
General election - SDP-Liberal Alliance manifesto (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative chairman Norman Tebbit on the election manifesto of the SDP-Liberal Alliance. He describes the document as disappointing, full of old socialist thinking and with some ideas stolen from the...
General election - Conservative manifesto (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative chairman Norman Tebbit says the party hasn’t run out of steam and details some of their manifesto for the general election. Male interviewer not identified.
General election - PM on Conservative manifesto (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s promotion of the 77-page Conservative election manifesto (includes speech excerpts). Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Spencer).
General election - Strategic authority wanted by Londoners? (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Report on the need for a single strategic authority in London, and whether the idea is a popular one. Includes interviews with two Conservative parliamentary candidates: Robert Hughes, standing in Harrow...
General election - Nigel Lawson speech to CBI (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s speech to the CBI at the Hilton Hotel. In excerpts, Lawson talks about the economy, inflation and unemployment from a positive angle, and says that the country is now in...
General election - Conservative candidates meet (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the meeting of Conservative parliamentary candidates at Westminster, where they were addressed by Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and warned of the...
General election - Norman Tebbit on Conservative campaign (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, in which he discusses his misquoting by Bryan Gould MP, the findings of recent opinion polls, the difficulty of securing the Asian and inner city...
General election - Margaret Thatcher speech (1987)
- Genre
- Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes a speech in which she lists what she regards as Tory achievements - low inflation, mortgage interest relief, the right of trade unionists to vote in their unions, the...