Margaret Thatcher on issues and policies

Title

Margaret Thatcher on issues and policies

Genre

Interview

TX Date

9 Dec 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:17:52

Description

In a television interview recorded in Strasbourg for Channel 4 News, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks to Peter Sissons about issues covered at the EEC summit and government policies and actions including Common Agricultural Policy; unemployment; bargaining with terrorists; the USA supplying arms to Iran; providing security information to the Opposition; the Spycatcher case; the clearing of Lord Rothschild (Victor Rothschild) of being a Soviet spy.

Further information

For transcript, see http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106535

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Sissons

Keywords

Australia; USA; Iran; EEC; Terrorism; Agricultural policy; Right to information; Arms sales; Unemployment; International relations; Espionage; State security; Spies; Trials; Hostages; Defence policy; Intelligence service; Ronald Reagan; Government policy; Neil Kinnock; Summits (meetings); Peter Wright; Spycatcher; Victor Rothschild

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