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80 results found for '"Malcolm Rifkind"' in Contributors.
Transport improvement (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on the importance of utilising the rail service for carrying freight and the importance of building new roads. Male interviewer not identified.
Cannon Street rail crash (1991)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Emma Howard reports on the events surrounding the rail crash at Cannon Street station in London, caused by failed brakes. Chief Superintendent Daniel O’Brian(?) reveals one person died and 247 were...
Conservative conference - Look back at main events (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Ceri Thomas reports from Blackpool at the end of the Conservative Party conference where John Major has delivered his maiden speech as leader and Prime Minister. He reviews the main events during the week....
EC steps in over transport construction projects (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Transport Secretary Malcolm Rifkind rejects the order by the European Commissioner for the Environment that work on the Channel Tunnel rail link and 6 other key transport projects should cease as EC...
Malcolm Rifkind on BR passenger charter (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Secretary of State for Transport, Malcolm Rifkind, talks to James Bays about the new British Rail passengers charter which sets low goals for service standard and whether extra money should be allocated to...
New French and German army corps (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
UK Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind on his concerns over the new French and German army corps and their relationship with NATO. He also says NATO troops can play a peacekeeping role in Europe. Chief...
Fourth trident submarine contract (1992)
- Genre
- Speech
Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind announces the fourth Trident Nuclear Submarine contract has been awarded to Vickers’ shipyard at Barrow in Furness securing fifteen hundred jobs.
Rifkind on Euro-Fighter aircraft (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Des Fahy interviews UK Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, after a meeting of European defence ministers in Madrid about the Euro-Fighter aircraft, hindered by Germany’s insistence it wants to pull out of...
Rifkind on Iraqi no-fly zone (1992)
- Genre
- Interview
Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind hopes the exclusion zone set up by the USA, and its allies the UK and France, in Southern Iraq will prove as successful as the one set up in Northern Iraq (in reducing human...
Further coalition air strike on Iraq (1993)
- Genre
- Press conference
Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind answers press questions on the further coalition air strike on military facilities which were continuing to pose a threat to coalition aircraft in the no-fly zone of...