Speeches given by people outside of the European Commission and within the UK Labour Party, on subjects including: trade unions, transport, the position of the UK in Europe, European Monetary Union, European Agricultural Policy, Labour Policies. Speakers include: Adair Turner, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry; Kenneth Clarke, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Bernard Pons, Ministre de l'Équipement, des Transports et du Logement; Michael Lowry, Irish Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications; Richard Branson; Anne-Marie Idrac, Secrétaire d’Etat aux transports; Malcolm Rifkind, Foreign Secretary; Annmarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of the Netherlands; Robin Cook, as Shadow Foreign Secretary and as Foreign Secretary; Sir George Young, Secretary of State for Transport; John Major, Prime Minister; Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France; Frederico Peña, US Secretary of Transportation; Stuart E. Eizenstat, US Representative to the EU; Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat; Pádraig MacKernan, Irish Permanent Representative to the EU; Brian Mawhinney, Secretary of State for Transport; Tony Blair, as Leader of the Labour Party and as Prime Minister; Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer; John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister; Margaret Beckett, President of the Board of Trade; Jack Cunningham, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries; Doug Henderson, Minister of State for Europe; Andrew Smith, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Michael Meacher, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. Also includes: Queen’s Speech for 1997; note to Geoffrey Martin re Lord Jenkins’ lecture to the Franco-British Council; House of Commons Official Report of European Standing Committee A: Transport Pricing; speech [by Neil Kinnock?] on the departure of John Kerr, British Representative to the EU; transcript of BBC Today programme interview with Malcolm Rifkind; paper by David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, "The pros and cons of EMU"; Labour Transport Policy (first draft); Labour Conference report "The future of the European Union: Report on Labour’s position in preparation for the Intergovernmental Conference 1996"

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