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Programme presented by Tony Francis. Nearly sixty MPs have signed a motion to overturn a ruling which allows GPs to prescribe the pill to girls under 16 without informing their parents. In the studio Francis chairs a debate between Anthony Beaumont-Dark, Conservative MP for Birmingham Selly Oak; and Councillor Theresa Stewart, Chair of the Birmingham Brook Advisory Group about the issue.
Next on film Reg Harcourt interviews Peter Archer, Labour MP for Warley West about his new role as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Continuing the Ireland theme we then see the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, Clare Short sharing a platform at a Labour conference fringe event with Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein.
On film Jon Lander profiles Clare Short. In an interview she states that she wants to 'change the world'. We see Short on the streets of her Ladywood constituency and talking to members of the public. She is also interviewed about her family roots in Ireland and Catholic faith. We then see an exterior view of the Home Office where she began her career as a civil servant and see her at the Labour conference with her husband, the former MP Alex Lyon.
The next item is a Reg Harcourt interview with the President of the CBI, Sir Campbell Frazer about the current state of the economy. Finally on film Rob Whitehouse reports about Corby bus driver Jim Sakals who is facing the sack from his job with the United Counties firm because he wishes to leave his trade union. After library pictures of Corby steel works and town centre we see Sakals leaving his house and driving his bus on the road. He is interviewed and explains that he wants to leave the union because as a Latvian with a memory of the Soviet invasion he has a deep suspicion of Socialism. Whitehouse then interviews Ken Coleclough the regional officer for the transport workers union about the dispute. Sakals has taken his employer to an industrial tribunal claiming unfair dismissal but is not expected to win because of the length of time he has been in the union before he tried to leave.
Production Team: Bruce Grocott; Rob Whitehouse; Mark Astaire
Film Editors: Ian Hutchison; Ken Jones
Graphics: Jim Chalmers
Political Editor: Reg Harcourt
Executive Producer: Terry Johnston
Editor: Mike Warman
Director: Rob Harding