Harold Wilson Leads Labour into Election Battle (1970)

On 2 June 1970, ITN covered the three main party leaders as they went about campaigning in that year's general election. In an interview with George Ffitch, Labour Party leader and UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson attacked the Conservative Party's proposed policy on industrial contracts. Conservative Party leader Edward Heath made a speech at the Tory conference in which he argued the Labour government had abandoned its pledges to deal with the issue of industrial relations, a point he reiterated in an interview with Richard Wakeley afterwards. Leader of the Liberal Party Jeremy Thorpe, meanwhile, campaigned on the issue of housing in Ladywood, Birmingham. There, he made a speech attacking the Labour government's record and, in classic campaign fashion, was photographed holding a baby and speaking with some elderly women.

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