Cabinet Confidential (2001)

0.0/10 60 min Documentary TV Movie

Overview

A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through candid interviews, rare archive footage and filming inside No 10, presenter Michael Cockerell opens the door to the Government's own chamber of secrets as he seeks the answer to the question: is the notion of cabinet government an obsolete concept?

Cast

Michael Cockerell

Self - Narrator

Tony Benn

Self

Tony Blair

Self

Frank Dobson

Self

Anthony Eden

Self (archive footage)

Michael Foot

Self (archive footage)

Michael Heseltine

Self

Douglas Hurd

Self

Roy Jenkins

Self (archive footage)

John Major

Self

Mo Mowlam

Self

Charles Powell

Self

John Prescott

Self

John Redwood

Self

Margaret Thatcher

Self

Shirley Williams

Self

Harold Wilson

Self (archive footage)

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