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Programme presented by Tony Francis. The first item is the results of a Central Lobby opinion poll three weeks before the Chesterfield by-election. Steve Bristow of Wolverhampton Polytechnic talks to Francis about the results and we see a short film insert of Chesterfield and stills of the three main candidates: Tony Benn (Labour), Nicholas Bourne (Conservative) and Max Payne (Liberal Alliance). Next, on film Reg Harcourt interviews the former Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West, Enoch Powell, ten years after he resigned his seat and his membership of the Conservative Party over his opposition to the then Prime Minister Edward Heath's policies on Europe. Harcourt also interviews Helen Hayman who stood for Labour in Powell's seat in the February 1974 General Election; Tony Butler of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Nick Budgen who won Powell's seat at Wolverhampton South West in the February 1974 election. We see Heath and members of the cabinet leaving No. 10 Downing Street and a short extract from a speech made by Powell in Birmingham in 1974 which led to his resignation. The final item is another film report, this time from Mark Astaire who interviews pupils at the private Rugby School in Warwickshire about their politics. The pupils are: Charles Whitworth, Martin Hart and Tom Stone (?). We see pupils in the dining room and shots of the school and short sections showing Rugby town centre and the GEC factory in the town. Reference is also made to the school's most famous political 'old boy', the former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Production Team: Bruce Grocott; Rob Whitehouse; Mark Astaire; Polly Rock
Film Editors: Michael J. Crolla; Julian Ware
Grapics:- Jim Chalmers; Willy Kerr
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding
Central Television production number 3813/84. At the time of this interview Enoch Powell was the Ulster Unionist MP for South Down. Powell died in 1998 (as did his successor in Wolverhampton South West, Nick Budgen). Helen Hayman's name is incorrect and should read Helene Hayman (she contested the Wolverhampton seat in 1974 under her maiden name of Middleweek).