Emergency Commons debate about BSE

Title

Emergency Commons debate about BSE

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

28 Mar 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:04:34

Description

In tonight’s emergency debate in the Commons Agriculture Minister Douglas Hogg announced a ban on the sale of meat from cows older than 30 months at the time of their slaughter. It was a predictably robust debate tonight, and our political editor Ed Boyle was there. Also speaking in the Commons Labour leader Tony Blair; Prime Minister John Major; Gavin Strang, Shadow Agriculture spokesman; and Conservative MP Nicholas Winterton.

Contributors

Gavin Strang; Nicholas Winterton; John Major; Tony Blair; Ed Boyle; Douglas Hogg

Keywords

Politics; Agriculture; UK; Beef; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Cattle

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