Pit closures inquiry

Title
Pit closures inquiry
Genre
Interview
TX Date
29 Jan 1993
Year of production
1993
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Duration
00:01:58
Description
Labour shadow Trade Secretary Robin Cook on the Trade and Industry Select Committee report into the government’s coal mine closure programme, which recommends some of the threatened 31 pits be saved. Cook calls on the Secretary of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine to resign for having stated the closure of all the pits was unavoidable and for putting jobs at risk. Male interviewer not identified.
Contributors
Robin Cook
Keywords
Reports; Public finance; Unemployment; Michael Heseltine; Coal industry; Coal mines; Resignation (political); Mine closures

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