Decision makers

Title

Decision makers

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

21 Mar 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:19:59

Description

Chancellor Lawson’s Budget for Jobs - will it work? Opinion on the usefulness or otherwise of Nigel Lawson’s Budget in the light of 3.25 million unemployed from: Liberal Party leader David Steel; Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock; shadow Chancellor Roy Hattersley; Conservative backbencher Tom Arnold; Norman Willis, TUC; Economic Secretary Peter Rees; SDP leader Dr David Owen; Employment Secretary Tom King; Conservative MP Jim Lester; Francis Pym and David Knox (in Parliament). Presented by Judith Dawson; Engineer: Heather Branwell.

Contributors

Francis Pym; David Steel; Roy Hattersley; Peter Rees; Tom King; David Owen; Neil Kinnock; Judith Dawson; Heather Branwell; Nigel Lawson; Tom Arnold; Norman Willis; David Knox; Jim Lester

Keywords

Budgets; Wages; Economics; Unemployment; National budgets; Unemployed; Employment policy; Nigel Lawson

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