David Owen conference speech

Title

David Owen conference speech

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

27 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:33

Description

Paul Rowley reports from Scarborough on Dr David Owen’s keynote speech at the SDP conference there (with excerpts). He was forced to give the speech outside through a loudspeaker on the seafront following a bomb scare in the conference hall. He talks about the terrorist threat and possible agreements with the Labour Party over proportional representation.

Contributors

David Owen; Paul Rowley

Keywords

Labour Party; Terrorism; Political conferences; Political parties; Conferences; Proportional representation; SDP; Political coalitions; Bombs; Scarborough

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