Decision makers

Title

Decision makers

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Speech

TX Date

9 Oct 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:24:02

Description

Decision Makers presented by Peter Allen is at the Conservative Party conference to find out whether the government can back up its claims to cut public spending, whilst Britain is going downhill economically, due to low productivity. Includes speech by Chancellor Geoffrey Howe; Tory and opposition MPs voice their support and criticisms: Denis Healey; Norman Tebbit, Chris Patten. Engineer Dave Dawson, further reporting by Douglas Moffitt.

Contributors

Geoffrey Howe; Norman Tebbit; Peter Allen; Denis Healey; Dave Dawson; Chris Patten; Douglas Moffitt

Keywords

Budgets; Politics; Social security; Taxation; Conservative Party; Political conferences; Political parties; Economic policy; Economic recession; National budgets; Public expenditure; Industrial productivity; Labour productivity

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