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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