Conservative Euro-election manifesto

Title

Conservative Euro-election manifesto

Genre

Interview

TX Date

22 May 1989

Year of production

1989

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:06

Description

Peter Spencer interviews UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, following the launch of the Conservative Party manifesto for the European elections on 15/06/89. She denies she’s an unwilling partner in the Common Market despite a succession of rows with Brussels over EEC reforms and claims from senior Tories she’s a bad European. See Further information for transcript.

Further information

http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107673

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Spencer

Keywords

Elections; Politics; Labour Party; EEC; Conservative Party; Political manifestos; Political parties; Europe

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