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Cuttings from national and local press.

Scope and Contents Indexed collection of McKenna's correspondence as First Lord of the Admiralty during the Election, with correspondents (mainly asking for naval information to assist their election campaigns) including: [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate]; Sir Owen Philipps [MP for Pembroke and Haverfordwest, later 1st Lord Kylsant] asking for information on the Pembroke dockyard (2); Sir Samuel Evans on the Pembroke dockyard (3); Arthur Crosfield (3); Charles Mallet [Liberal candidate for...

Scope and Contents Includes: a memorandum from Nigel Stanley and Peter Hain on NK’s leadership campaign strategy; General Election post mortems by Geoff Bish, TULV [Trade Unions for Labour Victory], Gwyneth Dunwoody [Parliamentary Campaign Coordinator], Denis Healey, Denis Howell, Sam McCluskie, Shirley Summerskill, various Labour Party regions and James Mortimer, General Secretary; notes on party recruitment, polling needs and party organisation, particularly from Jeremy Bray, Ray Green, Chris Powell and...

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Election broadcasts.

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Speeches and speech notes for election rallies at Northampton, Llandudno [Wales], Birmingham, Bolton [Lancashire], Darlington [County Durham], Bristol, Glasgow [Scotland], Leicester, Leeds [Yorkshire] and Cardiff.

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Texts and speech notes for policy launches at Newcastle (education), Leeds [Yorkshire] (crime), Bristol (housing), Birmingham (education) and Derby (industry), also including the launch of the General Election manifesto.

Scope and Contents Speeches and speech notes for election rallies and press conferences, including: conference for international press, on foreign policy, particularly international economic issues; Scottish Party conference; press conference on the recession; Birmingham rally; Manchester rally; press conference on the ambulance service; Glasgow rally [Scotland]; Sheffield rally [Yorkshire]; press launch for the final week of the campaign; press conference on unemployment; press conference on the Poll Tax;...

Scope and Contents Includes: NK’s constituency election statement; "the Bridgend speech" (Glamorgan, Wales), 7 June 83; NK’s summary of views for the Labour leadership election; the John P Mackintosh memorial lecture; the William Cardwell Memorial Lecture; NK’s acceptance speech on becoming Party leader. Other subjects include: Conservative education policy, particularly cuts; Labour education policy; higher education; the decline of industry; reasons for Labour’s defeat; future cuts to the coal industry;...

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Briefings for Neil Kinnock's 1992 election tour, briefings on marginal seats and key seats, campaign literature and statistical information.

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...

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Includes: memorandum from Julie Hall, NK’s Press Secretary, on press strategy in the run-up to the General Election; draft paper on the Oxford East constituency party’s investigation against Robert Maxwell over various union disputes; statement by David Blunkett on stepping up Labour’s campaign profile; briefing for meeting with the European Parliamentary Labour Party; press schedule; rough notes for a meeting on Iraq.

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Photographs of JEP at various events, including: on the Any Questions BBC Radio 4 programme, Mar 1974; the General Election, Sept-Oct 1974; with an Ulster Defence Regiment patrol at Newry [Northern Ireland], Sept 1977; on the Robin Day programme "The Question of Immigration", Mar 1978.

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Drafts and texts of speeches by CS given during his term of office, mainly broadcasts and statements on the election and Rhodesian [Zambian and Zimbabwean] independence. Also includes a speech by MS to Roosevelt School.

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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 From the Fonds: The collection held at Churchill Archives Centre includes correspondence (including general, official, political, constituency, parliamentary and family correspondence); speeches; Liberal Organisation and Scottish Liberal organisation and Federation material; press cuttings; business papers; and Scottish Office, Scottish Board of Health and Secretary of State for Scotland material. For the most part, the collection is made up of constituency, parliamentary and Liberal party...

Scope and Contents Papers of the committee, including: copies of JEP's evidence before the Committee; letter from Michael Wheeler-Booth [Principal Clerk, Overseas and European Office] asking JEP for his evidence; note by David Wood, European Political Editor of the Times, on relations between the British and European Parliaments after direct elections, with copies of articles by Wood; minutes of evidence taken before the committee, April 1978, March 1978, July 1977, June 1977; memorandum submitted by Lord...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Andrew Elliot, Director of Elliot Right Way Books, on the publication and sales of a collection of essays compiled by Diana Spearman, How the '70 Election Was Won, with special reference to JEP's speeches. Other correspondents include: Diana Spearman; John Wood, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Maurice Cowling on his contribution to the book. Also includes: notes of sales and book orders; issue of Gallup News, on the forecast of the 1964...

Scope and Contents Three quarter-length photograph of WSC walking with Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine, identified below the photograph], on a visit to [?] the Central Hall in Law's Hull constituency [Yorkshire], where WSC spoke during the General Election campaign. WSC is smiling slightly, looking a little to the side, wearing a dark overcoat, tall bowler hat and spotted bow tie, with a cane in one hand and a [?] cigar in the other. Beside him, Law, wearing glasses and looking directly at the camera,...

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Subjects include: Labour's policy review, particularly on defence; the European elections; improving attitudes towards women; greater support for working women and extending childcare provision; the Government's short-termism; food standards regulation; environmental policy; Stephen Kinnock's and Rachel Kinnock's attitude to politics; press coverage of Labour.

Scope and Contents Smart is a former LD Councillor and as agent she had to take charge of election literature of others, the expenses of her election, which are tightly regulated, and was there at the Count in Guild Hall in Cambridge on May 4th. Smart talks about her role in the mid-term local elections, the Liberal Democrats had a surprise win taking control of the neighbouring council in South Cambridgeshire although in Cambridge itself, Labour kept control. Smart requested that Antoinette Jackson, the CEO...

Scope and Contents Bird is a Labour Cambridge City Councillor and helped McQueen win her seat in East Chesterton, McQueen was elected off an all-woman shortlist. Bird is former Mayor of Cambridge and as someone who is in a wheelchair has campaigned on disability issues alongside others. In 2019 she was Deputy Mayor of Cambridge. The interview took place when McQueen had popped over to Bird's house for a meeting on anti-social behaviour and dangerous driving when Sones spoke to both of them. Sones asks Bird...

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Includes the text of NK’s election address and general committee papers. Correspondents include: Brenda Dean, General Secretary of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT) on an upset over the sale of the Wapping Post, newsletter on the union’s dispute with News International, in the constituency; Charles Clarke [head of NK’s office] on problems with media arrangements on the night of the General Election.

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Unedited footage on subjects including the attitude of the press towards Labour, NK’s defeat in the 1992 General Election, his record as leader, Labour’s links with the trades unions, NK’s future and policy on Europe.

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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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Discussion programme in which a cross-section of voters from the Granada region put their views to representatives of each major party during the General Election.