General election campaigning
- Title
- General election campaigning
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1983
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- Duration
- 00:02:51
- Description
- Report on latest events in General Election campaigns including a meeting featuring Liberal Party leader David Steel in West Linton, where he criticised negative campaigning by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Government; meeting featuring Peter Walker, former Agriculture Secretary, who attacked the Labour Party manifesto and its policies on economics and trade unions; meeting featuring Enoch Powell, UUP MP. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- None Identified
- Keywords
- Elections; Politics; Trade unions; Internal politics; Labour Party; Margaret Thatcher; Northern Ireland; Economics; UK; Conservative Party; Liberal Party; Political manifestos; Political parties; David Steel; Economic policy; Prime ministers; Party politics; SDP; SDP-Liberal Alliance; Politicians; General elections; Political coalitions; Cecil Parkinson; Political leaders; Enoch Powell; Election campaigns; Meetings; Peter Walker; Industrial policy; UUP; West Linton
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