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Conservative coup aimed to oust Euro-rebels (1993)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the coup by Prime Minister John Major supporters to end the right-wing dominance on the executive of the influential 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, which fizzled into oblivion last...

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Matthews People: Barbara Cartland, author (1984)

Mike Matthews talks to Barbara Cartland, one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, specialising in historical love themes. She also became one of the United Kingdom’s most popular...

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Conservative Party leadership election (1995)

Genre

Speech

Chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Marcus Fox discloses the result of the Conservative Party leadership contest, and declares John Major elected.

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Tory leadership election (1989)

Genre

Interview

Chairman of the 1922 committee Cranley Onslow MP talks to Kevin Murphy about how the Conservative Party leadership election today will work, how people could abstain or spoil their vote, how the winner will...

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Impact of party leadership challenge on Thatcher (1990)

Genre

Press conference

Unidentified male Conservative (poss. Douglas Hurd) on the damage done to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by the leadership challenge of Michael Heseltine. Male reporter not identified.

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Marcus Fox on Conservative leadership (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Jack Straw, shadow Home Secretary, about the Conservative party leadership and the future of the government. Also includes interview with Marcus Fox chairman of the backbench 1922 committee....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

European finance bill could be Government’s undoing (1994)

Genre

Interview

Chairman of the 1922 Conservative Party backbench committee, Sir Marcus Fox calls on his colleagues to support the European Communities (Finance) Bill and its controversial increased payments to the EC, due...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Nigel Lawson dismisses claims of British economic crisis (1988)

Genre

News report; Speech

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson speaks at the Institute of Economic Affairs in Westminster, dismissing fears that Britain’s economy is unhealthy. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher echoes the...

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Pay increases for MPs (1979)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on Commons debate deciding whether to accept instalments of wage increases for MPs following the Boyle report. With Commons speeches from Leader of the House of Commons, Norman St John-Stevas;...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Major criticised on Europe (1994)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate; Interview; Speech

Peter Russell reports on a House of Commons debate where Prime Minister John Major was criticised by both opposition and Conservative MPs over Britain’s new voting rights in an expanded European Union. The...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio