Pat Wall on 'Any Questions' (1987)

The 1987 General Election resulted in the third successive election victory for Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.

Just as now, the media 'experts', echoed by the Labour Party right-wing, argued that Labour's defeat was down to the manifesto having been too 'left-wing'. Yet, as 'Militant' explained, those arguments did not stand up to the facts that in the four constituencies where Marxist candidates had stood, supporting a Militant socialist programme, there were clear swings to Labour.

The recording below is of some excerpts from a recording of one of those MPs, Pat Wall, newly-elected Labour MP for Bradford North when on the panel of the BBC's 'Any Questions' show, alongside Tory Minister Kenneth Clarke.

The show was recorded in Liverpool in October 1987.