Wandsworth Council drastically cuts spending

Title

Wandsworth Council drastically cuts spending

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

TX Date

19 Oct 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:37

Description

Stephanie West reports on last night’s demonstration against a meeting of (Conservative) Wandsworth Council that voted through £5 million worth of cuts in spite of the opposition. Includes interviews with Labour’s David Blunkett, who is a rates payer living in the area, and Alf Dubs, ex-Labour MP for Battersea, and vox pop with local schoolchildren on school closures. Demonstrators heard chanting. For Breakfast programme.

Contributors

Alf Dubs; David Blunkett; Stephanie West

Keywords

Local government; Cost reduction; Education; Wandsworth; Demonstrations; Wandsworth Council; Social welfare

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