Prime minister’s question time tackles BR and Europe

Title

Prime minister’s question time tackles BR and Europe

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

29 Jun 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:11

Description

Des Fahy reports on Prime Ministers’s Question Time, in which Margaret Thatcher criticises the national rail strikes and confronts the issue of privatisation of British Rail; and also speaks on UK isolationist stance in Europe following the recent EEC economic summit in Madrid- Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock criticises her.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Neil Kinnock; Des Fahy

Keywords

Trade unions; Strikes; Labour disputes; Wages; Economics; EEC; UK; British Rail; NUR; European union; Railway workers; Privatization; Commuting; Social policy; Europe; Railway services; Summits (meetings); Madrid

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