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Subjects including the timing of the General Election, the withdrawal of nuclear Cruise missiles from Britain and the right wing in both the United States and Britain.

Scope and Contents Includes: rough notes of NK’s meeting with Senator Joseph Biden, Jan 1988, particularly on the economic situation, a "new Bretton Woods" agreement and the INF treaty [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] and arms control; briefing for a meeting with the American Ambassador to Britain [? Charles Price] on arms control; correspondence with Biden (2), Price and Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; briefings for meetings with Paul Warnke and Henry Catto, American Ambassador...

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Includes: extract from a transcript of NK’s interview for This Week on Labour’s defence policy and shift away from unilateralism; briefing and draft article on responses to Soviet initiatives on arms control; memorandum from Jeremy Bray [science and technology spokesman] on arms reduction and control.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...

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NK interview rushes nos 28 and 29 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.

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NK interview rush no 30 on Labour’s position on defence, particularly nuclear weapons.

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Subjects include: Labour's policy on privatisation and re-nationalisation; relations with the trades unions and the dock workers' dispute; defence policy and nuclear disarmament; plans for income tax levels and National Insurance under a Labour government.

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Interview on NK's upcoming meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, relations with the Soviet Union and nuclear disarmament.

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Subjects (in the People in Politics interview) include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher; socialism and the free market; the future of Europe; nuclear disarmament.

Subjects in the Newsnight interview include: NK's view of Margaret Thatcher's legacy and character; the failure of the opposition parties; the view of Thatcher within the Conservative Party.

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Includes: National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) peace pack; Just Defence briefing papers by Frank Barnaby and Stan Windass; information sheets on nuclear warfare; Greater London Council paper on civil defence in London; correspondence with the general public on Labour’s opposition to nuclear warfare.

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Interview with NK on subjects including children having the vote and nuclear defence.

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Circulation materials and correspondence from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment; Elsie Elliott [earlier Elsie Tu, member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong] on housing issues in Hong Kong (2); 2nd Lord Trefgarne, Government Whip, House of Lords, on a proposed economic authority established by the United Nations; Patrick Mayhew, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Employment, on the labour dispute at the Nottingham Evening Post; Dixon Konkola on his personal situation and...

Scope and Contents Includes: printed papers and notes on Labour’s policy; notes on Margaret Thatcher’s visit to the Soviet Union, Mar 1987; correspondence with individuals including George Younger [Secretary of State for Defence], Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly and Charles Price, American Ambassador to Britain; notes on American attitudes to NATO; texts of speeches by NK; papers by Malcolm Chalmers on disarmament; notes on Labour policy and attitudes, including those of Denis Healey; notes on Soviet response...

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Includes: press-cuttings; briefing for press questions [following NK’s meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Apr 1989]; text of an article by NK for the Times [1989]; research note on replacing the Chieftain tank; notes on Labour’s approach to defence policy and nuclear disarmament; transcript of NK’s This Week Next Week interview on disarmament, June 1988; press statements on the nuclear disarmament negotiations; note on defence in Labour’s Policy Reviews.

Scope and Contents Includes: notes and briefings on Labour policy; correspondence with individuals including Bruce Kent, Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, CND (8), David Blunkett (3) and Joan Ruddock (3); memorandum from Martin O’Neill, defence spokesman, on Labour’s commitment to disarmament and defence cuts; briefing for and transcript of NK’s This Week Next Week interview on disarmament, June 1988; briefing for and notes of a meeting with Parliamentary Labour CND; submissions to the Policy...

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Statements and correspondence between NK, Martin O’Neill, defence spokesman, Tom King, Secretary of State for defence, and Cecil Franks, MP for Barrow, over the future of the Trident nuclear submarine programme, based at the VSEL shipyard in Barrow [Cumbria].

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Includes: note by Martin O’Neill, defence spokesman, on what Labour’s first Statement on Defence Estimates should contain once in Labour was in government, and other defence issues which should be addressed as early in the Parliament as possible; briefing for an interview with David Frost on defence policy, particularly the Trident nuclear submarine programme; extract from NK’s speech to the Welsh Party Conference, 1989, on nuclear disarmament; extracts from Hansard.

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Collected interviews, statements and speeches by NK on subjects including: unilateralism and the cost of conventional forces; international relations; disarmament; nuclear protection from the United States and the removal of American bases from Britain. Includes an interview with Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense, on Labour’s anti-nuclear policy, interviews by NK with Peter Jay and David Frost and an extract from NK’s 1985 Conference speech.

Scope and Contents Includes: policy briefings; speech by NK to the Royal College of Defence Studies on priorities for defence policy, with notes from Malcolm Chalmers, Nov 1985; speech by NK at Kennedy School of Government, Boston [United States] on defence, democracy and development, Dec 1986; Conservative arguments against Labour’s defence policy and Labour counter-arguments; doorstep arguments for Labour; drafts of a paper on "nuclear addiction or sensible defence"; press briefings; background paper from...

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Correspondence between AFB and Prince Philip concerning references to 1st Lord Mountbatten and disarmament by Prince Philip in the Mountbatten Memorial Lecture, given at the Cambridge Union, 1981, and on Philip's agreement with Mountbatten's views on multi-lateral disarmament.

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Includes text of NK’s speech to a Foreign Press Association lunch, on disarmament and the international economy, 1983.

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Side 1 consists of short press interviews with NK on nuclear disarmament following arms reduction talks between the United States and Soviet Union, and NK speaking at a by-election campaign meeting at Hemsworth [Yorkshire].

Side 2 consists of NK speaking to the press during the by-election campaign in Langbaurgh [Yorkshire], particularly on economic issues and the mining industry.

Scope and Contents Papers, press cuttings and correspondence relating to land clearance in Hong Kong and proposed changes to the Immigration laws, used by AFB as source material for his Question in the House of Lords on Hong Kong. Includes: pamphlet by Walter Easey, "Ducking Responsibility, Britain and Hong Kong in the '80s"; White Paper from the Government of Hong Kong on district administration; papers on police violence during the clearances; correspondence with 2nd Lord Denham, Government Chief Whip in...

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Subjects interview include: Labour’s attitude to success and the individual; nuclear disarmament; divisions within Labour and the Conservatives; accountability within the party; combining economic policy with social needs; misrepresentation of Labour in the press; relations with the unions.

Before the main interview there are audio notes by NK on strategy for attacking Conservative economic policy.