Kinnock speech to TUC conference

Title

Kinnock speech to TUC conference

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

6 Sep 1988

Year of production

1988

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:37

Description

John Alcock reports on Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock’s speech at the TUC conference in Bournemouth (excerpts heard) which attacked Chancellor Nigel Lawson for record trade deficits and raised interest rates and asked unions not to boycott Margaret Thatcher’s employment training scheme but to modernise for the future.

Contributors

Neil Kinnock; John Alcock

Keywords

Trade unions; Labour Party; TUC; Margaret Thatcher; Unemployment; Employment; Conferences; Economic systems; Interest rates; Bournemouth; Nigel Lawson; Training; Economic policies

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.