Interview With Raymond Blackburn (1950)

Chipstead, Kent London. SCU. MS. People crowded around taxi as Raymond Blackburn arrives at Euston (3 shots). SCU. Mr Blackburn driving off in taxi. MS. Mr Blackburn with his two sons and daughter walking out into garden of their home at Chipstead, Kent. Several shots of the children. SCU. Mr Blackburn sends his two children off and walks towards camera. MS. Mr Blackburn walking up to microphone. MS. The herbaceous border in the garden. Mr Blackburn at microphone, starts speaking natural sound: It is with a very sad heart that I have left the Labour Party, but this is not a time for party politics. We face a situation far more dangerous even that those desperate days of 1940. We must have a National Government and we must call in one of the greatest men of all time, Mr Winston Churchill, and give him a chance to prevent the war, which he would have prevented if he d been made Prime Minister before CU. We must be a united country. We live in the age of lack of faith but we must find the fait