Cabinet Confidential
2001
60 minutes
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?
Top Cast
Michael Cockerell
Self - Narrator
Tony Benn
Self
Tony Blair
Self
James Callaghan
Self
Frank Dobson
Self
Anthony Eden
Self (archive footage)
Michael Foot
Self (archive footage)
Peter Hennessy
Self
Michael Heseltine
Self
Douglas Hurd
Self
Roy Jenkins
Self (archive footage)
John Major
Self
Mo Mowlam
Self
Cecil Parkinson
Self
Charles Powell
Self
John Prescott
Self
John Redwood
Self
Margaret Thatcher
Self
Shirley Williams
Self
Harold Wilson
Self (archive footage)