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Interviews with Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment, and with John Macgregor, Roy Hattersley, Labour home affairs spokesman and Alan Beith, on the Council Tax.

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Interview with Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment, on Labour's plans for local taxation, the non-collection of the Poll Tax by Labour-controlled authorities and the new Council Tax.

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Subjects include: talks between Iraq and the Kurds and how long British troops would remain in Iraq following the Gulf War; JM's view of Thatcherism and what his own policies would be; the introduction of the Council Tax; the state of the economy; unemployment; Britain's role in Europe; European economic and monetary union; low Conservative Party morale.

Scope and Contents Speakers include Jack Cunningham, NK and Roy Hattersley [Labour Home Affairs spokesman], speaking and answering questions on subjects including: Labour's immediate plans, both at home and in Europe; the work of the Plant Commission on proportional representation and electoral reform; the state of the economy; the Taylor Report [on the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster] and football stadium safety; local government finance and the abolition of the Poll Tax; legislation for a national minimum...

Scope and Contents Press conference held the day before the local elections, on subjects including: the respective Labour and Conservative election campaigns; the Council Tax; local government; the state of the economy; investment in public services; the effects of cuts to local services.Speakers include Jack Cunningham, environment spokesmen Bryan Gould, [Winifred] Ann Taylor and David Blunkett, and John Smith [spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs]. The recording starts with the new party...

Scope and Contents Side 1: NK speaking on social policy and private and public sector social care provision (in which his voice is slightly muffled); press interviews from NK’s visit to Derby during the local election campaign, on BREL (British Rail Engineering Ltd, Derby), local taxation and the Council Tax.Side 2: Labour Party recording of an interview with NK for the BBC World Service (see KNNK 26/2/157 for the BBC version) on the latest Labour policy review document, "Opportunity Britain". ...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Cabinet's agreement with Churchill's scheme for deregulation of local taxation [the De-rating Bill]; the farm and garden at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the swans and the sheep; the court martial of Kenneth Dewar; concerns for the health of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland; Randolph Churchill's development at Eton, method of argument and problem with authority; fees for articles and future work [on volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]; work on the Budget speech, April 1928; stay with...