General election campaign-row over Labour NHS broadcast

Title

General election campaign-row over Labour NHS broadcast

Genre

News report; Press conference; Speech

TX Date

30 Mar 1992

Year of production

1992

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:36

Description

Report on the argument over who leaked the name of girl patient Jennifer Bennett – who featured in the Labour Party’s much criticised health service general election broadcast - to the Daily Express dragging on. With comment on the issue from Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown; Conservative Party chairman Chris Patten; Prime Minister John Major; Labour leader Neil Kinnock; Labour campaign director John Cunningham. Peter Murphy reports from Westminster.

Contributors

Peter Murphy; Neil Kinnock; John Cunningham; John Major; Chris Patten; Paddy Ashdown

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Labour Party; Newspapers; Health services; Conservative Party; NHS; Children (age group); Party politics; Liberal Democrats; General elections; Doctors; Election campaigns; Hospital patients; Daily Express; Right to privacy; Jennifer Bennett

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.