Labour left wing conference

Title

Labour left wing conference

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

24 Mar 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:04:30

Description

Report on the Labour Party left wing conference’s support for illegally striking miners and condemnation of police handling of pickets. Other issues discussed were the Sarah Tisdall case (clerical officer jailed under Official Secrets Act for leaking information on nuclear weapons to the press); and Liverpool City Council’s budget problems. Includes interviews with Sheffield MP Joan Maynard; Chesterfield MP Tony Benn; Liverpool MP Terry Fields. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Tony Benn; Joan Maynard; Terry Fields

Keywords

Budgets; Politics; Labour Party; Strikes; Labour disputes; Newspapers; Political conferences; Right to information; Liverpool; Civil servants; Political parties; Conferences; Policing practice; Coal miners; Nuclear weapons; Imprisonment; Nuclear warfare; Liverpool City Council; City councils; The Guardian; Local finance; Militant Tendency; Strikes (events); Sarah Tisdall; Coal strike (1984- 1985)

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