Len Murray on new budget

Title

Len Murray on new budget

Genre

Interview

TX Date

8 Mar 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:26

Description

Margaret Gilmore interviews Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), about the Budget. Murray says there is nothing for the four million people who are now jobless. Pensioners and families also will not see any benefit. The Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, would argue that the low-paid have been helped because the tax thresholds have gone up again. Murray concludes that this Budget does not help those members of society who have been worst hit.

Contributors

Len Murray; Margaret Gilmore

Keywords

Budgets; Trade unions; Government; TUC; Taxation; Employment; Income tax; Unemployed; Family; Nigel Lawson; Pensioners (older people); State budget; National insurance; Pensioners welfare

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