Debate on Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s resignation

Title
Debate on Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s resignation
Genre
Speech; Parliamentary debate
TX Date
7 Nov 1989
Year of production
1989
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Duration
00:00:47
Description
Excerpt from a House of Commons debate involving Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Labour leader, Neil Kinnock. They clashed over the question of Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s resignation. Thatcher told the Commons that Nigel Lawson had resigned on a matter of personality, rather than policy, and that he had been determined to go in spite of all her persuasion. The personality the PM refers to is Sir Alan Walters, the former government economic advisor with whom Lawson had disagreed over policy. Broadcast on LBC Crown FM.
Contributors
Margaret Thatcher; Neil Kinnock
Keywords
Government; Margaret Thatcher; Conservative Party; Prime ministers; Nigel Lawson; Cabinet ministers; Resignation (political); Alan Walters

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