Nigel Lawson resigns-Neil Kinnock reacts

Title

Nigel Lawson resigns-Neil Kinnock reacts

Genre

Interview

TX Date

27 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:04:35

Description

Elena Curti interviews Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the resignation of Chancellor Nigel Lawson and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s subsequent cabinet reshuffle. Kinnock welcomes Lawson’s departure and calls for an urgent change in the government’s economic policy. Also denounces Thatcher as being unfit to run the government, and for appointing a new lapdog Chancellor John Major. For Talkback breakfast show.

Contributors

Neil Kinnock; Elena Curti

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; Conservative Party; Political leadership; Economic policy; Nigel Lawson; Cabinet ministers; John Major; Resignation (political); Political appointments

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