General election - Alliance and coalition
- Title
- General election - Alliance and coalition
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech
- TX Date
- Jun 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:04:17
- Description
- Report on SDP-Liberal Alliance ruling out a coalition with the Conservative Party if there is a hung parliament after the 1987 General Election and Thatcher stays as leader; interview with David Steel, Liberal leader (interviewer might be Peter Deeley); speech by David Owen, SDP leader; press conference with Tory Chairman Norman Tebbit; interview with Labour leader Neil Kinnock. Also PM Margaret Thatcher speech on economy from Scotland; Gerald Kaufman Labour Home Affairs spokesman on crime. Reporter not identified (poss. Peter Murphy or Peter Spencer).
- Contributors
- Margaret Thatcher; David Steel; Norman Tebbit; David Owen; Neil Kinnock; Gerald Kaufman; Peter Deeley?
- Keywords
- Elections; Labour Party; Margaret Thatcher; Economics; Conservative Party; Liberal Party; Political parties; SDP; General elections; Political coalitions; Election campaigns
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