Robert Harris reports on the 1983 general election - Newsnight Archives

Is politics more tightly-controlled now than it's ever been? Or is that a question people have been asking for years? Here's Robert Harris reporting for Newsnight on the 1983 battle between Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot.
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