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Coal: [No.10] briefing [for PMQs?] (‘background’ on the strike) [Labour party, Government policy, miners’ pay] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 2/6/3/107/ f59
Editorial comments: No author. Format suggests No.10 briefing for PMQs, but there has to be some uncertainty on the point. Peter Walker provided Conservative MPs with "background information" on the strike on 16 Mar 1984. Read Walker's briefing here.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Industry, Privatized & state industries, Energy, Labour Party & socialism, Law & order, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike