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WHAT HAPPENED ON 5th January 1997?
4th January 1997
THE AITC'S FANTASY DIARY FOR 1997
The Association of Investment Trust Companies has put together an unlikely diary for 1997: *January - Investment trust discounts to narrow to 1% & no-one launches a new trust. *February - Fund managers donate their six figure annual bonuses to Comic Relief. *March - Britain joins the ERM. *April - Conservative landslide win in "Fools Day" election.
5th January 1997
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% REFORM GOOD FOR BRITAIN CLAIMS LABOUR & Labour says its joint plans with the ' Liberal Democrats to reform the ( constitution will benefit the nation. ) * Deputy leader John Prescott hit back + after John Major claimed the plans would lead to the break-up of the UK. - . Opposition parties are thought to be / co-operating on areas like a Freedom of0 Information Act & the House of Lords.1 2 Mr Prescott said the public wanted 3 changes which would improve individual 4 rights & strengthen democracy. 5 6
5th January 1997
BRITAIN WILL NOT LEAVE EUROPE SAYS PM
The Prime Minister has said that talk of Britain leaving the EU is "fatuous". He told BBC's Breakfast with Frost the "whole of the Maastricht Treaty" could not be renegotiated. Instead Britain would seek institutional reforms. "But we will not go down the route of a more centralist Europe " Mr Major said. Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown said on Sky TV that the Government's "isolationist tendancies" over Europe would cost jobs in Britain.
4th January 1997
TOMORROW'S MAIN BUSINESS AT WESTMINSTER
The day in the Commons is devoted to private members' business. The Knives Bill & the Prisons (Alcohol Testing) Bill both receive their second readings. There will also be a backbench debate on the labelling of genetically engineered food. It will be opened by Labour MP for Lancashire West Colin Pickthall. The House of Lords is not sitting.
5th January 1997
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% REFORM GOOD FOR BRITAIN CLAIMS LABOUR & Labour says its joint plans with the ' Liberal Democrats to reform the ( constitution will benefit the nation. ) * Deputy leader John Prescott hit back + after John Major claimed the plans would lead to the break-up of the UK. - . Opposition parties are thought to be / co-operating on areas like a Freedom of0 Information Act & the House of Lords.1 2 Mr Prescott said the public wanted 3 changes which would improve individual 4 rights & strengthen democracy. 5 6
5th January 1997
Those who favour abolishing the
Monarchy & House of Lords always overlook one thing. When you replace them with an elected second chamber & President what you get is another bunch of garrulous squabbling politicians. We already have far too many of those! R.W. Smith Wrafton Devon
4th January 1997
John Major wants to get social workers
off the backs of parents & for adult children to be responsible for the care of their elderly parents. The results will be undetected child abuse & care for frail parents for 24 hours a day seven days a week. Social security cutbacks will mean more money for tax cuts to aid 'fat cats'. V M Crews Beckenham Kent
5th January 1997
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% REFORM GOOD FOR BRITAIN CLAIMS LABOUR & Labour says its joint plans with the ' Liberal Democrats to reform the ( constitution will benefit the nation. ) * Deputy leader John Prescott hit back + after John Major claimed the plans would lead to the break-up of the UK. - . Opposition parties are thought to be / co-operating on areas like a Freedom of0 Information Act & the House of Lords.1 2 Mr Prescott said the public wanted 3 changes which would improve individual 4 rights & strengthen democracy. 5 6
5th January 1997
PM URGES LOYALISTS NOT TO END CEASEFIRE
John Major has issued an appeal to loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland not to end their ceasefire. The Prime Minister warned they would be walking into an IRA "trap" if they returned to violence. It would give republicans the excuse they needed to escalate their own terror campaign he told BBC TV. "It is a trap it is exactly what the IRA would most wish you to do " he told the Breakfast with Frost programme.
4th January 1997
PRESCOTT DERIDES "BOGUS" JOBLESS FIGURE
More people believe in Santa than in the Government's "bogus" unemployment figures John Prescott has claimed. The Labour Deputy Leader said the Tories had been fiddling the figures for years with thousands of jobless people being driven off the register. He added that the size of the workforce had dropped by 0.8m since 1990. But John Major welcomed the 95 000 drop in the jobless total to 1.9m as "a great Christmas present for Britain".
5th January 1997
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% REFORM GOOD FOR BRITAIN CLAIMS LABOUR & Labour says its joint plans with the ' Liberal Democrats to reform the ( constitution will benefit the nation. ) * Deputy leader John Prescott hit back + after John Major claimed the plans would lead to the break-up of the UK. - . Opposition parties are thought to be / co-operating on areas like a Freedom of0 Information Act & the House of Lords.1 2 Mr Prescott said the public wanted 3 changes which would improve individual 4 rights & strengthen democracy. 5 6
5th January 1997
PRESCOTT'S POSTER BID TO UPSTAGE MAJOR
Labour has attempted to steal John Major's thunder by unveiling an election poster telling voters the Tories cannot be trusted. It shows a picture of Mr Major with the slogan: "Why trust him on the economy after 22 tax rises? Enough is enough." Labour's deputy leader John Prescott also spelled his election priorities. Schools came top along with repairing the NHS putting young people back to work & fighting crime he said.
4th January 1997
LIB DEMS UNVEIL "101 TORY DAMNATIONS"
The Liberal Democrats have published a list of "101 Damnations" ` blunders half-truths & lies they say the Tories have committed since 1992. The dossier proved that the Government was "dishonest & disreputable" spokesman Simon Hughes told reporters. He said his party wanted to see the Tories beaten at the first opportunity. The Lib Dems wanted a chance to prove that "there is a political party which means what it says " he added.
5th January 1997
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% REFORM GOOD FOR BRITAIN CLAIMS LABOUR & Labour says its joint plans with the ' Liberal Democrats to reform the ( constitution will benefit the nation. ) * Deputy leader John Prescott hit back + after John Major claimed the plans would lead to the break-up of the UK. - . Opposition parties are thought to be / co-operating on areas like a Freedom of0 Information Act & the House of Lords.1 2 Mr Prescott said the public wanted 3 changes which would improve individual 4 rights & strengthen democracy. 5 6
5th January 1997
REFORM WILL END IN TEARS SAYS MAJOR
Move to bring about constititional reform "will end in tears" the Prime Minister has warned. John Major accused Labour of wanting "to tear up the constitution" in a speech to businessmen in Yorkshire. The issue was "thoroughly damaging & a huge distraction" he said. Earlier Conservative Party chairman Dr Brian Mawhinney accused Labour & the Liberal Democrats of "lighting a fuse that would blow the UK asunder".
