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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