Labour conference - Day’s issues

Title

Labour conference - Day’s issues

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Oct 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:03:11

Description

Peter Spencer reports on issues debated today at the Labour Party conference in Blackpool including the proposed pay policy, tackling racism in politics, election of the party leader, and nuclear weapons. With speeches by TUC Chairman David Basnett; Stanley Brown, delegate; chairwoman Joan Lestor; Nobel Peace Prize winner and former cabinet minister Lord Baker (Philip Noel-Baker).

Contributors

Peter Spencer; David Basnett; Philip Noel-Baker; Joan Lestor; Stanley Brown

Keywords

Deaths; Trade unions; Labour Party; Wage policy; TUC; Political conferences; James Callaghan; Political parties; Conferences; Nuclear weapons; Racism; Blackpool; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Radiation injuries; Instiutional racism

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