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265 results found for '"Community charge"' in Keywords.
Poll tax demise (1993)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Tanya Hines looks back at the unpopular poll tax (community charge) as the new council tax comes into force tomorrow. Includes interviews with Tory MP David Hunt, and Labour leader of Islington Council Derek...
Norman Tebbit receives community charge summons (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Former Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit is interviewed about his summons to court for not paying his community charge to Liberal Democrat council, Tower Hamlets. Tebbit once declared that those who...
Local election in Richmond (1994)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Max Cotton reports on the political climate in Richmond in the run-up to the local elections. Local newspaper owner Jonathan Dimbleby says the result will be as much about local issues as national policy;...
Local authority spending increase (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; Speech
Political editor Ed Boyle interviews Labour MP Frank Dobson about Environment Secretary John Gummer’s announcement the government will increase local authority spending next year to £45 billion by...
Tony Blair on House of Lords (1996)
- Genre
- Speech
Labour Party leader Tony Blair, in his John Smith Memorial Lecture, on the unfairness of the House of Lords being able to pass laws. He cites the poll tax (community charge) as an example.