Harry Enfield as Stavros on the poll tax

Title

Harry Enfield as Stavros on the poll tax

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:33

Description

Harry Enfield’s comedy character Stavros, a Cypriot kebab shop owner, backs the campaign outside the Hackney Empire to protest about the new poll tax (community charge). Enfield as Stavros airs his views against the tax and Environment Secretary Nichols Ridley, and claims housing in the area will suffer, as will the underpriveliged. Female interviewer Eve Conway?

Contributors

Eve Conway?; Harry Enfield

Keywords

Government; Conservative Party; Protest movements; Community charge; Local taxation; Cabinet ministers; Nicholas Ridley

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