Speaker Bernard Weatherill to retire

Title

Speaker Bernard Weatherill to retire

Genre

News report; Interview; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1991

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:04:09

Description

Report on Speaker of the House of Commons Bernard Weatherill retiring before the next election, after 8 years; his celebrity after Parliament was televised; and possible candidates to take over including Cranley Onslow, Deputy Speaker Betty Boothroyd and even Margaret Thatcher. Includes interview with Weatherill in which he admits affection for rowdy MP Dennis Skinner; shouts of Order Order; Thatcher speaking in Commons. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Bernard Weatherill

Keywords

Politics; Margaret Thatcher; Broadcasting; House of Commons; Famous people; Retirement; Dennis Skinner; Betty Boothroyd; Cranley Onslow; Janet Fookes; Bernard Weatherill

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