Lamont autumn statement

Title

Lamont autumn statement

Genre

News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate; Technical

TX Date

12 Nov 1992

Year of production

1992

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Duration

00:03:43

Description

Des Fahy reports from Westminster on the autumn statement (includes excerpts) with Chancellor Norman Lamont cutting interest rates by one percent and curtailing public spending by imposing a wages ceiling of one and half percent on Britain’s five million public sector employees among other measures. With responses from shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown; Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Alan Beith. False start to report.

Contributors

Norman Lamont; Alan Beith; Des Fahy; Gordon Brown

Keywords

Wages; Wage policy; Public sector; Economic policy; Interest rates; Public expenditure

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