Ashdown on name change for Democrats

Title

Ashdown on name change for Democrats

Genre

Interview

TX Date

16 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:04:59

Description

The Social and Liberal Democratic Party is no more as its members have decided to be known from now on as the Liberal Democrats. A heartily relieved leader Paddy Ashdown told Peter Spencer this finally spells the end of alphabet soup and comments on the poor current state of the economy.

Contributors

Peter Spencer; Paddy Ashdown

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; Economics; Political parties; Economic policy; Liberal Democrats; Social and Liberal Democratic Party

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