BBCNEWS Political Thinking with Nick... June 4, 2024 10:41:00
Did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there was a conservative manifesto commitment to have a debate on making capital punishment available to the courts again. and they moved very quickly because the election was may and injuly they had this vote. i had just done my o—levels, my sister had just done her a—levels and we went to listen to t...