General election campaign-morning news conferences

Title

General election campaign-morning news conferences

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

TX Date

17 Mar 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:25

Description

Peter Murphy reports from Westminster on the three main political party leaders’ morning news conferences today in the general election campaign in which they’ve been taking shots at each other. Includes Prime Minister John Major on grammar schools and shadow Chancellor John Smith’s alternative Budget; Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock and trade and industry spokesman Gordon Brown on Tory handling of the recession; Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown on the Labour Budget.

Contributors

Peter Murphy; Neil Kinnock; John Major; Paddy Ashdown; Gordon Brown

Keywords

Budgets; Elections; Politics; Labour Party; Conservative Party; Grammar schools; Economic policy; Economic recession; National budgets; Party politics; Liberal Democrats; General elections; Election campaigns

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