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Programme presented by Tony Francis. In the Westminster studio Jon Lander interviews the Labour MP for Sparkbrook Roy Hattersley about his ambitions for the party leadership. We also see a library clip from 'Left, Right and Centre' from 6 July 1981 in which the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson talks about Hattersley.
Next on film Jon Lander interviews Carol Thatcher, the daughter of the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about her new book of the 1983 campaign 'Diary of an Election'.
Ten Midlands MPs lost their seats at the recent General Election. Rob Whitehouse finds out what they might do next. We see brief clips of losing candidates cut to music (including Jim Marshall (Labour), Tom Bradley (SDP) and Philip Whitehead (Labour). Interview with Gwilym Roberts, the former MP for Cannock and with Jim Smith, the boss of the career consultancy firm Management Systems Ltd. There is also an interview with the former Labour MP Ray Carter who since losing the Northfield seat in 1979 has been working for Marathon Oil. One of the rising men of politics is the Blaby Conservative MP Nigel Lawson who has been recently promoted to Chancellor. Jon Lander profiles Lawson using library pictures from 1982 when he was Energy Secretary. We see Lawson in his car and entering Thomas House in Westminster and he is also interviewed.
Finally in the studio Reg Harcourt interviews six newly elected MPs. They are: John Taylor MP for Solihull (Conservative); Martin Brandon-Bravo MP for Nottingham South (Conservative); Alan Howarth MP for Stratford on Avon (Conservative); Francis Maude MP for Warwickshire North (Conservative); Margaret Beckett MP for Derby South (Labour); and Robin Corbett MP for Birmingham Erdington (Labour).
Graphics: Jim Chalmers
Film Editor: Ric O'Connor
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding
Production number 2880/83. The Nigel Lawson feature is a re-edit from Central Lobby Programme 7 (4 November 1982).