Chancellor’s mini-budget - Reaction to speech
- Title
- Chancellor’s mini-budget - Reaction to speech
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
- TX Date
- 8 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:02:50
- Description
- Parliamentary correspondent Max Cotton reports on Chancellor Kenneth Clarke’s mini-budget (08/12/94). His decision to use duty on drinks, cigarettes, and petrol to balance the books has not gone down well with the industries involved and there are still loud complaints about the surviving eight percent level of VAT on fuel. Includes extracts from speeches by Kenneth Clarke; Shadow Chancellor, Gordon Brown; Liberal Democrat spokesman Malcolm Bruce.
- Contributors
- Kenneth Clarke; Max Cotton; Gordon Brown; Malcolm Bruce
- Keywords
- Budgets; Taxation; UK; Great Britain; Charities; Care for the elderly; Value Added Tax; Petroleum industry; Tobacco industry; Beverage industry
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