Results
39,247 results found for all records.
Ian Gilmour sacked for criticising Thatcherite policies (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Bestic interviews Sir Ian Gilmour following his sacking by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as Lord Privy Seal and Government spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth affairs. Gilmour confirms he will...
David Owen on SDP leadership election row (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Spencer interviews SDP MP Dr David Owen on the row within the party as to whether the leader should be elected by MPs or members. Owen confirms the membership will be given the right to vote on the...
Thatcher and Mitterand talks (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Press conference
Terry Dignan reports on the outcome of talks in London between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand and their respective ministers over joint cooperative projects,...
Islington defections to SDP (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Rodney Bennett reports following the victory of SDP candidate Kevin O’Keefe in an Islington Borough Council by-election, preceded by the defection of 16 councillors and local MP Michael O’Halloran from...
Michael Foot at nuclear disarmament meeting (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Phil Longman reports on a nuclear disarmament meeting in London, where Labour Party leader Michael Foot shared the platform with veteran campaigners E P Thompson and former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme....
Islington defections to SDP (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Bill Davey interviews Islington borough councillor and ILEA representative Cecelia McAskill on her decision, along with up to 17 other councillors, to defect from the Labour Party to the SDP, in view of the...
Liberal concern over Labour defections to SDP (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Chairman of the Union of Liberal Students, Jane Merritt, criticising the acceptance without question of former Labour MP Michael O’Halloran into the SDP, and on grass roots concern that...
Jim Prior on Northern Ireland post in Thatcher cabinet reshuffle (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Employment Secretary Jim Prior on his decision to accept the post of Northern Ireland Secretary in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet reshuffle, following disagreements with the...
Thatcher cabinet reshuffle (1981)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Judith Dawson reports back on possible ministerial changes in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet reshuffle, notably the move of Employment Secretary James Prior to Northern Ireland, following his...
New Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit on unions and unemployment (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Industrial editor John Perkins interviews newly appointed Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit following Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet reshuffle. Covering the government’s possible...