Barbara Cartland was inspiration for back to basics campaign

Title

Barbara Cartland was inspiration for back to basics campaign

Genre

Interview

TX Date

24 Jan 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:00:13

Description

Writer Dame Barbara Cartland talks about being the inspiration for Prime Minister John Major’s Back to Basics campaign. Its claimed words she said at a lunch she had shortly before the Conservative Party conference with Major and his wife put the ideas in his head.

Contributors

Barbara Cartland

Keywords

Writers; Conservative Party; Novelists; Moral values; Romance; Policy making; John Major; Moral behaviour

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