BBC Nine'o'clock News, 29 April 1997

Michael Buerk presents the Nine'o'clock News on Tuesday 29 April - 36 hours before voting in the general election opens. Reports:
1) The last Conservative rally of the campaign, in which John Major has bitterly attacked Tony Blair; Jon Sopel reports.
2) Tony Blair speaks in Bristol, and campaigns in Gloucester, followed by Robin Oakley.
3) Paddy Ashdown doing a tour of the south-west trailed by Carolyn Quinn.
Later section:
4) A live interview with John Major.
5) Anne Perkins's campaign desk, featuring Paddy Ashdown in Cardiff and the campaign in Wales in general (Glyn Mathias), speculation about the Conservative leadership, the parties reach out to the Asian community (Reeta Chakrabarti reports), and the tie choices of the party leaders.
6) Reports from three marginal constituencies: Pudsey, Stevenage and Redditch.
7) Robin Oakley sums up, on Labour's positive feelings about the likely outcome.

[@BossySwan]

Fantastic archive footage.

[@heinkle1]

These are great, thanks

[@MultiVince95]

Tuesday 29th April 1997

[@satoterror]

Ironic how the news under the Tories was full of Northern Irish problems and troubles yet once Labour got into power they signed an historic peace deal.

[@BossySwan]

Tbf Major did a lot of the legwork for what became the Good Friday Agreement.

[@MagicNash89]

And now the Tories apparently want to undo that achievement.

[@wessexfox5197]

The Good Friday Agreement sold out British veterans, sold out the Unionist community of Ulster, began the process of excessive political correctness banning Unionist traditions, football songs and so on all whilst cow-towing to every wish of the Republicans. It was a dreadful appeasement that wasn’t needed, the IRA were losing in the 90s and were losing their international supplies of arms and money. Peter Hitchens has written and discussed the GF agreement greatly and is spot on to call it out for what it is, a Blairite treasonous act against our country.