Cabinet Confidential (2001)

Cabinet Confidential

2001

Documentary TV Movie

Synopsis

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?

Credits

Cast

Anthony Eden as Self (archive footage)

Douglas Hurd as Self

Frank Dobson as Self

James Callaghan as Self

Michael Cockerell as Self - Narrator

Michael Foot as Self (archive footage)

Michael Heseltine as Self

Peter Hennessy as Self

Tony Benn as Self

Tony Blair as Self