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Harrods affair - Government reaction

Title
Harrods affair - Government reaction
Genre
News report; Speech
TX Date
3 Apr 1989
Year of production
1989
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Duration
00:01:59
Description
Peter Spencer reports on the Government’s reaction to the Harrods affair: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s growing concern over how Mohamed Al-Fayed acquired Harrods over the Lonrho group; the leaking of a report to the Observer newspaper. Fayed talks about how he has bought Harrods and it is no one else’s business how he paid for it.
Contributors
Peter Spencer; Mohamed Al-Fayed
Keywords
Reports; Newspapers; Margaret Thatcher; Business acquisitions; Harrods; Lonrho; Observer; Mohamed Al-Fayed

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