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Interview with Peter Mandelson by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 10 September 2000

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Transcript of an interview with Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, by David Frost for BBC Breakfast with Frost on 10 September 2000. On 9 September 1999 the Patten Report was published containing 175 recommendations for the reform of policing in Northern Ireland including the renaming of the existing police force, the removal of most visible symbols of British identity and an equally proportionate recruitment policy for Catholics and Protestants. In this interview Mandelson discusses the difficulties of implementing these proposals, the importance of the prisoner release programme and the current impasse over IRA decommissioning. Breakfast with Frost was a weekly BBC current affairs programme.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 10 September 2000

Name of First Interviewee: Peter Mandelson

Role at time of Interview: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Interviewer: David Frost

Purpose: News

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © BBC Breakfast with Frost

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: BBC Breakfast with Frost

Time Period covered: 2000

Key Individuals: Peter Mandelson, Johnny Adair, Cyril Ramaphosa, Martti Ahtisaari, Julia Langdon, Mo Mowlam

Key Words: RUC, flag, justice, prisoner, normalisation, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, Sentence Review Commission, PSNI, decommisioning, IICD, Provisional IRA

 

 

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