Enoch Powell on undercover agents in Northern Ireland

Title

Enoch Powell on undercover agents in Northern Ireland

Genre

Interview

TX Date

7 Jan 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:02:10

Description

Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist MP for South Down, accuses the British Government of employing undercover agents to help prise Northern Ireland from the UK; he believes that agents provocateurs were planted during a recent Loyalist march. He says that Margaret Thatcher signed the treaty (the Anglo-Irish Agreement?) under pressure from the Americans. He also scoffs at the idea that local politicians might work together; politicians get elected, he says - they don’t work together. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Enoch Powell

Keywords

USA; Politics; Internal politics; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; UK; British; International relations; Demonstrations; Unionism (Irish politics); Politicians; Anglo-Irish Agreement

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