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News footage on the rebate for Scottish Poll Tax payers.

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Briefing for an interview on subjects including: differences between Labour and the Conservatives under John Major; policy for industry; the health service; the Poll Tax; transport policy; environmental policy; economic policy on taxation and inflation.

Scope and Contents Briefing notes, papers and minutes by individuals including Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications, Jack Cunningham [Campaigns Co-ordinator] and Colin Byrne, Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer, on subjects including: the 1991 local elections; preparations for the next General Election; the summer campaign; the London campaign; analysis of the 1990 local elections; environmental policies; Labour’s National Health Service campaign; the Poll Tax campaign; by-election...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: coverage of the Cricket World Cup; the state of the economy; the housing crisis; compensation for those infected with HIV from blood transfusions; cold weather payments to the elderly; the Maastricht Treaty; environmental policy; a proposed foundation to help new parties in developing democracies; energy efficiency; the collapse of BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce International]; National Health Service reforms; measures to help the homeless; bringing British nationals in...

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Subjects include: the Clapham Junction rail accident [London]; food safety, relating to salmonella in eggs; campaigns against the Poll Tax; the alleged involvement of British soldiers in training the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: inflation forecasts; the alleged involvement of British soldiers in training the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; the debate on Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM); the debate on Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait; security vetting procedures; environmental policy and the G7 Summit; the sale of Rover to British Aerospace; a report on low income statistics; comparison between the Poll Tax and rates; child maintenance payments; new business creation; Japan’s whaling...

Scope and Contents Includes: brief and agenda for campaign management team meeting; note on the campaigning framework for 1989; proposed changes to the Conference voting system and Trades Union Congress proposals on the minimum wage; question and answer brief on the Poll Tax; note on black and Asian organisation within Labour; briefs for meetings with the Whips, the Tribune Group, MPs and junior Front Bench spokesmen; paper on alternative voting systems; papers on a New Socialist conference; congratulations on...

Scope and Contents Includes: briefing for an interview with the Jewish Chronicle on Labour’s attitude to the Jews and Israel, c Nov 1988; Australian article on NK, May 1989; briefings for interviews with David Frost and Julian Manion, on the economy and industry, quality of life, Europe, the Poll Tax, NK’s own view of his chances in the next General Election and party reform, c Dec 1989; transcript of Frost on Sunday interview, Dec 1989; press copy of a letter from NK to Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on...

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Minutes and papers from meetings of the campaign group, including the campaign launch and schedule, strategy notes and a campaign pack on the Poll Tax.

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

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Includes: recordings of television interviews with NK and other members of the Shadow Cabinet; recordings of news bulletins featuring NK and Labour; recordings of speeches from Conference; party political broadcasts and election broadcasts; political documentaries; recordings of Prime Minister’s Questions, from the House of Commons.

Scope and Contents Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Labour's decision making process, relating to non-nuclear defence and arms reduction; town planning and the reconstruction of inner cities; Soviet and American attitudes to nuclear disarmament and common security; making Labour more open, democratic and attractive; improving relations between the membership, leadership and trades unions; regional policy development; non-payment of the Poll Tax and Labour's proposed replacement for it; racism...

Scope and Contents Questions answered by NK on subjects including: Black Sections and racism in the Labour Party; taking Labour voters for granted and the need for party discipline to win power; the concentration of resources on target seats; non-payment of the Poll Tax; a greater role for the membership in Party Conferences; education policy; the trades unions and the employment training scheme; the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar, counter-terrorism in Northern Ireland and Labour's policy on the...

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Questions answered by NK on subjects including: non-payment of the Poll Tax; getting Labour's message across; open Government; transport policy; the non-nuclear defence strategy and arms reductions; the role of the party membership; industrial relations.

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Sound track of [?] a Labour Party Political Broadcast on the Poll Tax.

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Notes on suggestions that a number of MPs would not pay the tax, including a letter from Martin Pilgrim [Under Secretary (Finance), Association of Metropolitan Authorities].

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Rough notes from visits and meetings including: a [?] visit to Birmingham and a CBI lunch; a meeting on South Africa and sanctions; a note on [death threats issued against] Salman Rushdie; a meeting with Marie Walsh, Anti-Poll Tax Union, Newbridge, Gwent [Wales].

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Papers and correspondence on the Poll Tax (also known as the Community Charge) and the introduction of the Council Tax as a method of funding local services.

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Footage of various sessions of Prime Minister’s Questions, with subjects including strikes by ambulance drivers, inflation, pay levels and incomes policy, the Poll Tax, the effect of high interest rates, football ID cards and the privatisation of PowerGen. Also includes a statement by Margaret Thatcher on the increase in the Civil List.

Scope and Contents Includes: text of an article by NK for the Irish Labour Party; on the European economy; tribute to Bernt Carlsson; speech for the anniversary of trade unions being banned at GCHQ; speech to the Scottish Trades Union Congress Poll Tax lobby; speech on the Coalfields Communities campaign; speech to a Labour Youth Conference; speech to the Confederation of European Socialist Parties, supporting the adoption of the European Socialist Manifesto; speech at the Pontypridd by-election rally [Wales];...

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Includes: speech to the World Economic Forum on inflation and the balance of trade deficit; speech for the launch of the local election campaign; speech for a Poll Tax press conference; speech for a meeting with local businessmen; statement on the European Council summit, Dublin [Ireland].

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Includes: speech to a NATO meeting on international security, particularly relating to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; speech for a debate on the Gulf War; lecture in Manchester on taxation and public spending; speech for a local government conference; response to the Budget; lecture on "Building out of Recession"; a speech for a Motion on the Poll Tax. Other subjects include: cuts to the National Health Service.

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Includes: briefings for visit to the London Housing Unit exhibition, Hammersmith and Fulham sheltered housing scheme and a crime prevention initiative; briefing for a meeting with Poll Tax petitioners; briefing for and notes on a meeting with Deniz Baykal [Turkish Republican People Party's General Secretary].

Scope and Contents Briefings and arrangements for visits and meetings, including: a meeting with Dick Cheney, American Secretary of Defense, on European defence, NATO and nuclear disarmament, including rough notes of the meeting; a meeting with Dan Quayle, Vice-President of the United States, on defence and the Common Agricultural Policy; a meeting with Boris Yeltsin, President of the Soviet Union, on overseas aid, defence and disarmament; a meeting with Boutros Boutros Ghali, Secretary-General of the United...