Richard Lacey on Currie resignation
- Title
- Richard Lacey on Currie resignation
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 17 Dec 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:47
- Description
- Interview with Dr Richard Lacey, Leeds University, following the resignation of junior health minister Edwina Currie over her remarks about salmonella-infected eggs. He claims that the outbreak of salmonella in eggs is on a scale far greater than imagined, and he regrets her decision to resign because, although though he thinks she has been tactless in the past, he says she is honest and truthful. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Richard Lacey
- Keywords
- Government; Agriculture; Farming; Conservative Party; Safety; Food; Ministers; Resignation (political); Eggs; Edwina Currie; Salmonella; Poultry farming; Poultry industry
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