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Interviews with Laurence Kennedy, Jeffrey Peel, the Marquess of Salisbury, James Molyneaux, Sydney Elliott, Peter Lane and Enoch Powell for ITN in February 1989

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Video interviews with Laurence Kennedy (chairman of the North Down Conservative Association), Jeffrey Peel (Chairman of the Model Lagan Valley Conservative Association), the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative politician), James Molyneaux (leader of the UUP), Sydney Elliott (Senior Lecturer in Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast), Peter Lane (Chairman of the executive of the National Union of the Conservative Party) and Enoch Powell (former Conservative Party MP) for ITN in February 1989. Ahead of the May 1989 local elections a number of unionist political figures decided to form a self-styled Conservative Party organisation in Northern Ireland. The interviewees discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a new political party.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 1 February 1989

Name of First Interviewee: Laurence Kennedy, Jeffrey Peel

Name of Second Interviewee: The Marquess of Salisbury, James Molyneaux

Name of Third Interviewee: Sydney Elliott, Peter Lane, Enoch Powell

Role at time of Interview: Laurence Kennedy (Chairman of the North Down Conservative Association), Jeffrey Peel (Chairman of the Model Lagan Valley Conservative Association), the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative politician), James Molyneaux (leader of the UUP), Sydney Elliott

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved

Link: Watch the interview

Programme/Book/Article: ITN

Time Period covered: 1989

Key Individuals: Laurence Kennedy, Jeffrey Peel, the Marquess of Salisbury, James Molyneaux, Robert Chichester-Clark, Enoch Powell

Key Words: Northern Ireland Conservatives, Conservative Party, religion, election, Anglo-Irish Agreement

 

 

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