John Smith at the TUC conference

Title

John Smith at the TUC conference

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

8 Sep 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:28

Description

Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports on Labour Party leader John Smith’s speech to the TUC conference in Brighton and reaction to it. He avoided mentioning his controversial one member one vote reform proposals that would end union block voting. Includes extracts from Smith’s speech and reaction from GMB leader John Edmonds; General Secretary of the TGWU Bill Morris; Bill Jordan of the engineering and electrical union. Sound is in mono.

Contributors

John Smith; John Edmonds; Bill Morris; Kevin Murphy; Bill Jordan

Keywords

Trade unions; Labour Party; TUC; Employee rights; Conferences; Electoral reform; Party politics; Brighton; Trade union members; Rights

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