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90 Sep 9 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell minute for MT (rception at ECOFIN of UK hard ecu proposal) [misleading press reports, but "considerable interest" in UK ideas; "We are very much still in the game, but well short of having converted the EC to our way of thinking"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Treasury letter to Cabinet Office ("AHGG: financial sanctions") ["payments from blocked accounts to Iraqi students in the UK... [and] instructions from Iraq to amend letters of credit"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("The Gulf: Saudi reactions to Bush/Gorbachev summit") ["Prince Bandar... very alarmed at the constant harping on a peaceful solution"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Patrick Mayhew letter to Hurd ("Gulf crisis: request from the Amir") ["the request... does not embrace the use of force beyond that necessary to enforce economic sanctions... a further request would be needed"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for further UK reinforcements to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Embassy of Israel press release ("Reply by the Ambassador of Israel to questions asked regarding Minister of State FCO Mr W Waldegrave's remarks concerning Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict during the House of Commons special session on the Kuwait crisis (6-7 September 1990)") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: President Ershad letter to MT (International Organisation for Migration: aid for Bangladesh) [letter of thanks for UK contribution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: President of the Tunisian Republic letter to MT (Gulf crisis) [appointment of a Special Envoy to UK and proposals for a settlement of the crisis] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial meeting, 10 September: Gulf crisis: Bush-Gorbachev summit") ["Baker stressed need for NATO to meet out of area threat"; sanctions; burden-sharing] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: King Hussein's visit to Baghdad: 5/6 September") ["likely to continue with his diplomatic efforts to promote a solution... had spoken very frankly to Saddam... there was no choice... if it came to a war, Iraq would be defeated"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Doha telegram to FCO (Prime Minister's speech in the House of Commons Debate) [Emir of Qatar offers congratulations and support] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Visit of Secretary Baker") ["Saudis insist that assistance already being given by them equals, and possibly exceeds, that requested by Baker"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Hurd minute to MT ("Gulf: future force levels") ["If Saddam Hussein is to be persuaded to withdraw, we have to keep building up the pressure... We are likely to come under pressure on costs"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Michael Portillo (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Law and order) [clear message to Hussein to get out of Kuwait] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report for 1989-90") [should minimise the numbre of changes] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French Press Reaction to ECOFIN") ["certain sourness at what is seen as growing support for the cautious British approach"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN, Rome 8 September: Italian Press Comment") [outcome seen as substantial setback for those seeking rapid implementation of Delors plan] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Informal ECOFIN") [UK proposals for stage 2 welcomed; disagreements on the pace of transition to single currency] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to David Mellor ("1990 Public Expenditure: Arts and Libraries") [proposals are unrealistic and unacceptable] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("PES: Arts and Libraries") [does MT want to get involved in dispute between Lamont and Mellor] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to Waddington PS ("Satellite Television") [providers of satellite television competition with cable licensees] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT letter to Polish Ambassador (her Aspen speech: the future of Europe) [declassified Jul 2018] |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting Tyneside (job losses due to sanctions on Iraq) |
|
90 Sep 10 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech opening Millicom Cellular (UK) Headquarters |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell note for MT ("Gulf crisis") [overnight telegrams, especially Baker's debriefing of NATO on Helsinki Summit; "Our European allies do not come out too well"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to Robert Hayward MP (meeting with the Prime Minister) [scheduling] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf: meeting with Ministers") [Helsinki summit; sanctions; Emir of Kuwait; aid; additional forces] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Force deployment to the Gulf") [Air Vice Marshal Wilson, General Schwarzkopf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Peter Lilley PS letter to No.10 (Turkish barriers to EC textile exports) [Lilley looking for 'quid pro quo' deal with Turkey] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: King PS letter to No.10 (temporary deployment of Royal Navy patrol craft to Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs)) ["in the light of the increased terrorist theat to the SBAs from pro-Iraqi/Libyan terrorist groups"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for ground force reinforcements to Saudi Arabia") ["if we are just thinking about the political impact... there is no doubt that tanks play very well. But if it came to a conflict and the Challenger did not perform, the down-side risk would be very much greater than with artillery"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Yemen/Saudi Border") [Prince Bandar request for papers] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Resupply of our Kuwait Embassy") [use of Special Operations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with Baker: Gulf") [Hurd, US Secretary of State] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1228 to FCO (2105Z) ("Humanitarian assistance to refugees") [UK Ambassador to the UN, UN Secretary General] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 628 to FCO (1026Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: International Organisation for Migration") ["IOM pleased by response so far to their appeal for funds to transport evacuees"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1222 to FCO (0330Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council action") ["Americans... for a further Security Resolution... tightening the screw against Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with Signor Andreotti") ["in case of necessity" asks MT to give him lunch at Chequers on 20 Oct; she agrees] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [release of key economic data; ECOFIN discussion on single currency; possible ERM entry dates] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN") [German press highlights differences over timing of stage two and favours cautious approach] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Griffiths briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: ERM") [comments by press and analysts support her position of delaying entry] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Possible Dates for ERM Membership") [reviews dates between Oct and end of year] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [release of key economic data; ECOFIN; possible ERM entry dates (Major will press for 5 Oct)] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Turkish Satellite Communication System") [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 11 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) |
MT: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (speech to Czech Federal Assembly) [please amend & embellish] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Chairman of HM Customs & Excise letter to Peter Lilley ("Iraq/Kuwait sanctions: enforcement and co-ordination") ["critical that we should receive the earliest possible intelligence and be consulted quickly"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis: Morocco") ["account of the meeting [of] Maghreb Foreign Ministers on 2 September": search for a peaceful solution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("Gulf crisis: Israel") [Charles Powell, Benjamin Netanyahu] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Additional British forces for the Gulf") [meeting to discuss MT concerns about reliability of Challenger tank] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: Tunisian proposals") ["an "Arab solution"... unacceptable in many respects"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Meetings on the Gulf") [MT asked to approve less frequent meetings of Cabinet Office Group "Now that we may be entering the long haul"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2218 to FCO (2237Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["[US] sceptical about an Iran/Iraq oil deal, and inclined to play down the Khameini statement"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2217 to FCO (2235Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Cheney and Powell before the Senate Armed Services committee") ["No surprises, and little hard information. Clear Senatorial sense of grievance against Japan/Germany... Burdensharing was a key element"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: discussion at Foreign Ministers' Dinner") ["Dumas and Shevardnadze think sanctions will have their effect... in two months... [Hurd], Baker and Genscher less sanguine"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman record of conversation ("Message from the Prime Minister") [UK Ambassador, King Hussein: "The King has made no secret... of his opposition to foreign intervention"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (0545Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: President's address to Congress") ["A confident and determined address... determination to do whatever may be necessary to reverse Iraq's invasion of Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Chairman of the European Democratic Group speech (Strasbourg, 12 September: Gulf crisis) ["Prompt and courageous action by the United States have protected a vital "out of area" European Community interest which - let's be frank -we were simply not organised to protect on our own"] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Countryside) [Bush tells Congress that Hussein will fall] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT concern over invisibles and the RPI; ECOFIN; possible dates for ERM entry] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (Treasury paper on hard ecu) [Chancellor has made it available to Parliamentary Select Committees and other interested parties] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: Turkish President Ozal letter for MT (commercial investigation of Polly Peck International in the UK) [Greek Cypriot campaign against the company] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Turkish Ambassador) [Polly Peck International] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Turkish Ambassador) [Ozal would like brief meeting with MT in London on 23 September or New York the following week] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Interview for Japanese Press Agency (Jiji Press) |
|
90 Sep 12 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Neue Zurich Zeitung |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
UN Security Council Resolution 666 places food supplies to Iraq and Kuwait under strict international control |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis") [cover letter for Bush message to MT (retained) following his meeting with Gorbachev at Helsinki Summit to discuss Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of the General Staff, & others) ["Additional British forces for the Gulf": MT reservations about efficacy of Challenger 1 tank] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gulf crisis: Ministerial meeting") [additional British forces; advice to British citizens in Kuwait; assistance for families of hostages] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("OD meeting: the Gulf") [additional British forces; military and financial aid burden-sharing; effect of sanctions on British companies] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2231 to FCO (2240Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the US domestic dimension") ["public support... has solidified... [but] a growing mood in Congress that all the Allies should be doing more"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Baker's call on Gorbachev, 13 September") [UN resolution on air routes embargo; sanctions for violation of existing resolutions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Saudi assistance to states affected by embargo and to costs of US forces") ["greater degree of Saudi munificence... than had been assumed when Baker made his pitch here"; UK looking to US to set precedent for ironing out bureaucracy problems with Saudi funding of fuel, water and in-country transport costs for military forces] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1250 to FCO (0315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [text of draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1249 to FCO (0310Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1244 to FCO (0125Z) ("Appointment of relief Co-ordinator") ["Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Sadruddin Aga Khan as his personal representative for humanitarian assistance"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Industry) [Ayatollah calls for holy war against Americans] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Clarke PS minute to Barry Potter ("Clinical Research Centre") [interim report on proposals for closure] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Major PS minute toNo.10 ("Q2 Balance of Payments") [revision to figures - press commentary] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Scotland on Sunday |
|
90 Sep 13 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Variety Clubs Dinner |
|
90 Sep 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2234 to FCO (0053Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: legal basis for further military operations") [US "dismayed that we had gone ahead with the Kuwaitis on our own"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2232 to FCO (0001Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["may be based on a misunderstanding of US ideas for regional security arrangements... [but] Khameini's words could be taken... as the green light to carry out terrorist attacks against US forces"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Economy, Lamb War) [US says it will not be ready for war for two months] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 14 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Trivial |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting Finchley |
|
90 Sep 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2244 to FCO (1545Z) ("Visit of the Secretary of State for Defence: Iraq/Kuwait") ["US policies to come under review in November. Present stress on the longer haul"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [public expenditure negotiations; Mansion House speech] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 16 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny ("if you accept freedom and have fought for freedom, you must also accept responsibility") [partial transcript] |
|
90 Sep 16 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Czech journalists in Prague (no efficiency in state enterprises) |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
MT visited Czechoslovakia and Hungary (until 19 Spt) |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report 1989/90") [concerns about local authorities who lost out in the way debt has been handled] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Barry Potter minute to Clarke PS ("Northwick Park: Clinical Research Centre") [proposed closure and transfer of work] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Renton PS minute to Waddington PS ("Broadcasting Bill: Quality Threshold") [handling of government defeats in Lords] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: DTI minute to No.10 ("Polly Peck International PLC") [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Ankara Metro Project") [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at official lunch in Prague |
|
90 Sep 17 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Czechoslovak President (Vaclav Havel) |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [need to distinguish between burdens arising from new activities and those from transfer of responsibilities to local government] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [should be clear and simple] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Czechoslovak Federal Assembly |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech unveiling plaque in Prague (naming "Winston Churchill Square") |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference in Bratislava |
|
90 Sep 18 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Budapest official dinner |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury minute ("Poehl's press conference: 19 September") [Pohl saying hard ecu rejected by ECOFIN; "Statement by the Deutsche Bundesbank on the establishment of an Economic and Monetary Union in Europe"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Satellite Television") [regulation of Satellite Master Antenna Television systems] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting the Hungarian Stock Exchange ("a start") |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks condemning IRA attack on Sir Peter Terry ("deeply grieved") |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Joint Press Conference with Hungarian Prime Minister (Jozsef Antall) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for BBC (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ITN (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for Sky TV (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for TV-AM (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for BBC (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 19 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Radio Interview for IRN (visiting Hungary) |
|
90 Sep 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at lunch given by Swiss Federal President (Arnold Koller) |
|
90 Sep 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference in Berne |
|
90 Sep 20 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Swiss Federal Council official dinner |
|
90 Sep 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Shares Spending Distribution Between Service Shares") [officials' suggestions] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (agreed text of Chancellor's public statement on ERM entry) ["not seeking delay, just awaiting the right circumstances"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 21 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks condemning Iraqi expulsion of British diplomats ("totally unjustified") |
|
90 Sep 21 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Zurich official lunch |
|
90 Sep 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [costing the effect of policies affecting local authorities' spending] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Michael Howard (HSC work) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to John Major ("Local Authority Pay") [central government involvement in pay negotiations] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome Special European Council) [need also to discuss the Gulf] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, French Minister of Finance) [EMU] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Peter Lilley minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [difficulties new totals will cause for DTI] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 24 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for Newsweek |
|
90 Sep 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Economy/Politics) [Mitterrand calls on Hussein to leave Kuwait] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [courts have upheld council's interpretation of the law] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Barry Potter ("BBC Licence Fee") [independent study of fee increases and inflation] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 25 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Newspaper Press Fund reception |
|
90 Sep 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Foreign, Environment) [UN security council tightens screw] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell ("ERM") ["there is a risk that we shall be manoeuvred into a very weak position"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Sep 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to Waddington PS ("BBC Licence Fee") [MT says if inflation is to be brought down, BBC needs to absorb increase in costs through greater efficiency] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 26 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting South Wales |
|
90 Sep 26 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to the Welsh CBI |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("Questions for Mr Bush") [coming talk with President - US response to incidents, preparations for full-scale hostilities, transition to major hostilities, Israel, end game, long-term security, Iraq nuclear capacity] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador) [the political and economic situation in the Soviet Union; Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Standard Spending Distribution Between Services") [share for education services] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Economy, Politics) [Jordan bans Iraqi flights] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: DTI") [allocation of bottom line settlement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("BBC Licence Fee") [independent study of fee increases and inflation] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS)") [technical aspects of the settlement] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child tax allowances and child benefit") [covering minute for attached Policy Unit note on "merits of different approaches to child support... [and] the action to be taken in the short term"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Iran/Gulf comment) [real progress in conventional forces arms control talks] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Department of Health press release ("GPs' Leaders Accept Kenneth Clarke's Assurances on Drug Budgets") [right of GPs to prescribe medicines] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [ask Treasury how much more they think they will have to concede] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit to the UK by President von Weizsacker: 14 November 1990") [Coventry cathedral commemoration arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Sep 30 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Sep 30 Su |
Press |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Gulf War: MT-Bush meeting in New York [memoirs extract] |
|
90 Sep 30 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to United Nations World Children’s Summit |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Policy Planning Staff brief ("A Theme for the London Summit") ["hot" political issues include Gulf crisis aftermath, NATO, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Standard Spending Assessments for 1991-92") [endorses Patten's proposals for changes in the assessments] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS) and Standard Spending Assessment (SSA)") [options for distribution] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Non-Domestic Rate Poundage for 1991-92") [indexation of the multiplier] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Peter Lilley minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Post Office and ECGD") [external finance limit] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to PS (BBC Opinion programme) [how to maintain impartiality and imbalance] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for ABC (visiting New York) |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CBS (visiting New York) |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for CNN (visiting New York) |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
TV Interview for NBC (visiting New York) |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech accepting the Morgenthau Award |
|
90 Oct 1 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech accepting the Unifem/Noel Foundation Award |
|
90 Oct 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Standard Spending Distribution and Standard Spending Assessments") [composition of SSAs] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991/92") [impact on school budgets] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Scotland: Peter Morrison minute for MT ("Lord Sanderson and Scotland") [Sanderson beginning to settle into the job as chairman] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to David Hunt ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Wales") [NHS cross border flows] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey (PES)") [Lamont will do very well to get near his ambitious target] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
German reunification |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("London Economic Summit") [Mulroney's confusion over Summit dates] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Party conference) [IRA murder gang, German unification] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School-Leavers") [address issue with short bill] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [inflation, interest rates and joining ERM; Major proposed MT announce entry in her conference speech on 12 Oct] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [options to join and reduce interest rates next weekend] declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Lamont-Griffiths-Butler) [bids had been even higher than last year] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 3 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on German unification |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (East-West/Defence, Labour Party) [UK seeking new UN resolution to sanction military action against Iraq if hostages harmed] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
NHS: Clarke PS minute to Dominic Morris (new doctors' contract) [article in Doctor] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [possible announcement in MT's Conference Speech: options/permutations] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Chancellor's PS minute to Middleton ("Contact List for Friday, 5 October") [who to notify about UK ERM entry, and when] declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter for MT (UK entry into ERM) [will be seen as "a strong policy signal ... good chance of an outstanding result and success for the Government"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 4 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Interview for Sunday Express (Gulf) |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Britain joined ERM; announcement that interest rates would be reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (TSS for 1991-92) [proposals for service split] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Labour Party, Politics) [Israel-Palestine peace chances] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor and Prime Minister's Statements") [revised draft of Chancellor's 4pm statement on UK entry to ERM and 1 percent reduction in interest rates; suggested form of words for MT] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (ERM entry) [Q&A briefing to accompany Chancellor's statement] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: MT minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Broadcasting: Impartiality") [extending impartiality provisions to BBC] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Charles Powell ("Broadcasting - Impartiality") ["We are in danger of endless litigation"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2441 to FCO (2350Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["Gorbachev still the Americans' preferred partner. But his obvious and serious problems are beginning to cloud the picture"] [released Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 5 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Press Conference announcing decision to join the ERM |
|
90 Oct 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Today's Press") [ERM entry "clearly a coup and on the whole it has gone down very well indeed"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Meeting of the European Monetary Committee") [text of communique agreeing sterling should enter ERM at central rate of DM2.95 with 6 percent margins; "a significant advance in economic and monetary integration"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Press") ["as good as can be expected" on ERM] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 7 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO telegram to Major ("UK Entry to the ERM") [Hurd conversation with Delors on latter's problems with the announcement; CDP: "It's none of his business"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 7 Su |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
HC S: [Debate on the Address] [film] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Chronology |
Key |
[Chronology] |
Interest rates reduced by one per cent, from 15 to 14 per cent |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposal to legislate to require authorities to use reserved receipts to repay debt] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK Entry to the ERM: German Reactions") [general welcome; some expect it to strengthen German resistance to rapid EMU] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 8 October: EMU") [general congratulations on UK entry to ERM, save from Carli] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 letter to Lord President's PS ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [asks advice on letter from Neil Kinnock demanding debate] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: ECGD; IFR 1990; Post Office") [need to ensure Post Office accept spending discipline] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks arriving at Conservative Party Conference ("Full steam ahead for a fourth term") |
|
90 Oct 8 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Agents |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Abu Dhabi telegram to FCO ("Iraqi reprisals") [reliable source says 20 Kuwaiti men detained at Saudi border and shot in reprisal for bombing of Kuwait International Hotel] [unclassified; released Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: Sanctions") [frank exchange with Crown Prince Hassan on sanction breaches and Jordanian policy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Effects of Sanctions - Industrial Decline") ["serious problems expected ... supply of raw materials, spare parts and foreign expertise"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: MT letter to President Khan of Pakistan (Pakistan's stance) ["Pakistan's firm stance and its commitment of troops ... have been of great value"; economic assistance] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: General Scowcroft letter to Charles Powell (Mitterrand) [MT & Bush in New York "shared acute concern about the lack of unequivocal French support"; message conveyed to Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage 1991-92") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Opposition Request for Debate on ERM") [Lord President, Chancellor and Chief Whip all think government should grant it] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Privy Council Office letter to No.10 ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [Lord President and Chief Whip urge she grant it; Chancellor thinks to refuse would cloud favourable publicity won by entry] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe speech to the Conservative Small Business Bureau ("ERM: Making the Most of Membership") [CDP: "You will recognise all the not-very-coded signals"] [this copy declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Arrangements for Star Chamber") [timetable, members] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 9 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on election dates ("not even thinking about it") |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UK Ambassador US letter to Charles Powell ("The Gulf: contacts with the White House") [asks how UKE Washington can best help MT keep "fully abreast of White House thinking"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf: ROE") [are you content with 'dormant' Rules of Engagement "for use if a limited conflict develops in the Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Policy Planning Staff, Shevardnadze adviser Sergey Tarasenko) ["particularly outspoken on the Gulf ... Saddam Hussein must not come out of the crisis a hero, like Nasser"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Jordan and the Gulf Crisis") [memo from King Hussein' acknowledgment suggested] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT ("Visit to the Gulf: 29 September - 2 October") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage") [case for full indexation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT (further Kinnock letter demanding MT open debate on ERM entry) ["letting off steam rather than a serious appeal"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT lette to Neil Kinnock (debate on ERM entry) [Chancellor will open for the government since he made the announcement] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Wakeham PS (Star Chamber) [membership] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: MOD minute to Lord President's Office ("MPs' Visits to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Turnbull minute for MT (Heath's meeting with Saddam Hussein) [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Signor Andreotti's talks with the Prime Minister") [refuses permission for Italian press officer to attend Chequers talks] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit (RPI) [suggests putting this point to MT later] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Brooke PS minute to Barry Potter (Star Chamber) [prepared to be a member] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Letter to Patrick Nicholls MP (resignation) |
|
90 Oct 11 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Trivial |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at Conservative Conference Ball |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2480 to FCO (2255Z) ("Visit of the Secretary of State for Defence, 15 October: Iraq/Kuwait") ["Despite their frustrations the Americans seem bound to try to make sanctions work at least for the next several weeks, until their build up is complete"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (0000Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 2000 11 Oct] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2015Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 1615 12 Oct, plus draft statement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Mubarak") [anecdotal account of invasion; King Hussein "cat's paw" to Saddam; in event of military action "the Iraqis will run away"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heath) [Iraqis not saying Heath visit at weekend not convenient, asking him "to postpone it for a while"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [action at UN, sanctions, hostages/Heath, Embassies in Kuwait, Diplomacy, US policy, military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Curwen minute for Powell ("Reactions to Gulf Postings") [letter from the Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President De Klerk") [negotiations with ANC hindered by violence with Inkhatha, inability of ANC to make up its mind and "Mandela's constant peregrinations around the world"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [implications of government policy for local authority spending] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European Council, 27/28 Oct: Italian presidency plans") [Jay official talks in Rome - IGCs a focus, Italians had hoped to secure a 'mandate' for both, now saying unlikely] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [premature to set up Star Chamber at this stage] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Multimedia |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference [film] |
|
90 Oct 12 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Key |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Conservative Party Conference |
|
90 Oct 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1623 to FCO (0700Z) ("Occupied Territories: Security Council debate") [adoption of SCR672 - MT: "A VERY good night's work"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 13 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Gulf Crisis: audience with King Hussein") [King summoned UK and US Ambassdors, affirmed commitment to sanctions; Tariq Aziz to visit later today] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
MT held talks with De Klerk at Chequers |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Visit of Tariq Aziz to Amman: 13 October") [briefing from King Hussein, no sign of shift in Iraqi position] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to Ministry of Defence ("Gulf: ROE") [MT satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Newspapers") [party conference "judged to have been low key, defensive, nervy, uninspired and divided over Europe"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 14 Su |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Preface to Christianity and Conservatism |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (1600Z) ("conveying messages to Saddam Hussein") ["US agreement with our diagnosis. Effect of sanctions so far limited. Several channels to Saddam Hussein. Primakov achieved little"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1635 to FCO (1425Z) ("Occupied Territories") [US Ambassador trying to persuade Israel to be more cooperative to Aime Mission] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: discussion with Saudi Defence Minister") ["enlightening discussion of how he sees next steps"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: MT letter to King Hussein (his memorandum on the crisis) [important "to stay in close touch on this issue", "I think that we both have a clear understanding of each other's views"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: positive information campaign") [seventh weekly sitrep; extensive briefing notes] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT (Iraq/Kuwait: Iraqi threat to Saudi Arabian oil installations) [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [covering minute for draft] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Economy/Pay) [Hurd and Heath row over whose idea it was Heath should go to Iraq] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers) ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor's Statement on ERM") [text for delivery] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [practicable and politically desirable to make further reductions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Update on PES Negotiations") [progress with Home Office, education, employment] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 15 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on award of Nobel Peace Prize to Gorbachev ("terrific ... richly deserved") |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2497 to FCO (0046Z) ("Occupied Territories") [message for Hurd - Baker message to Levy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1645 to FCO (0122Z) ("Occupied Territories") [inconclusive meeting between Secretary-General and Israel Ambassador to UN] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: UN Sanctions") ["Crown Prince replies helpfully, if somewhat testily, to your message about sanctions enforcement"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Israel: Plenary Session: Gulf crisis") [Israeli concern that Arab support for Saddam will grow in any "long haul scenario"; containing Saddam if he survives; Jordan worries] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics for his visit; "The signs are still of lack of clarity and determination"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("The Gulf") [Cradock visit to Washington - limitation on topics he can safely raise because he has not been briefed on highest level American thinking] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Embargo Surveillance Unit") [essential but not glamorous work, could she see them as a "nice gesture"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Business Note") ["rather elaborate" note from Robin Butler, lising papers on crisis to prepare and put to cabinet committee OD(G); MT unhappy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gulf: ROE") [Foreign Secretary satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: MT letter to Sir Ronald Millar (Conservative Party Conference 1990, Eastbourne) [thank you letters to speechwriters; "I Do, Ron Ron"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Gorbachev, Economy) [Hurd gets frosty reception in Israel] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [doing nothing is not an option] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) |
MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“speech-writing process seemed to be easier than in some previous years”] |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
90 Oct 16 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Article for The House Magazine (obituary-tribute to Ian Gow) |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2510 to FCO (2109Z) ("UNSG's mission to Jerusalem") [US policy towards Israel and PLO] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2105Z) (French draft SCR on Iraq/Kuwait) [early draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1655 to FCO (0415Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait") [message for Secretary of State in Jerusalem - continuing UK-US differences over scope of next steps SCR] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: comment") ['infuriating' that USMIS at UN was undercut by "yet another premature Baker press statement"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Message from Baker to Secretary of State") [wants a "clean humanitatian resolution" without reparations to address plight of foreign nationals; MT annotates strong disagreement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Primakov's Visit to Rome, 16 October") ["Soviets reportedly link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a UN initiative on the Occupied Territories"; Andreotti preference for a negotiated settlement] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Cradock ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics he can safely raise, excluding military options, timing and strategy] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") ["this agenda would raise problems for me" - need to be able to "cover the issue in broad terms" to encourage US to think through options more clearly] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Telephone conversation with President Bush") [Scowcroft says President will want to call tomorrow or Friday evening; draft message for MT to send Bush first] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Robin Butler ("Gulf Business Note") [MT reaction - distinguish issues which can go to OD(G) and some that need "to be handled on an even more restricted basis"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Hurd, Primakov, Heath, Bush, UN, Kuwait Embassies), military, future work] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (King Hussein comment) [Saddam seized whole of Kuwait as bargaining chip for disputed territory] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with President Bush") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Primakov's Tour: Meeting with the Secretary of State") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Soviet Union, South Africa) [MT and Bush warn Hussein of war crimes charges] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("President Cossiga") ["A high and controversial profile in recent months after five quiet years"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 17 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech at lunch for Thai Prime Minister (Chatichai Choonhavan) |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
Eastbourne by-election: Liberal Democrat gain from Conservatives |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (2220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov's Tour") ["Administration will take a tough line on the compromise solution which they expect Primakov to bring to Washington"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1664 to FCO (0030Z) ("Jerusalem: Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [text agreed in five, aim to have resolution passed end of week, "but final US go-ahead still awaited"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1665 to FCO (0035Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [discussion in five on Soviet proposal for Military Staff Committee meeting, US without instructions, other four in favour] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1667 to FCO (1315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["US modus operandi in New York is certainly not designed to get the best results"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2010Z) ("US/UK New York text of 16/10") [draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's call on Israeli Defence Minister") ["cordial and detailed exchange" - Occupied Territories; UNSG's mission; Jordan; Iraqi military capabilities] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister") ["Good atmosphere but predictable differences"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Baker) ["Gulf Crisis: next steps at the UN"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [as agreed, draft message for Powell to send Scowcroft] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (overnight telegrams) ["The Foreign Secretary is in a fair amount of trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO & Cabinet Office ("The Gulf") [top secret records of meetings, messages & calls with US Administration] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Baker message for Hurd (Security Council: next steps) [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: MOD minute for Powell ("Pay and Allowances in the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Gulf Crisis: Burden Sharing") [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [analysis & advice on minute from Tony Newton & related correspondence] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
European Council: MT letter to Lawson (his decision to leave the Commons) ["The ERM has gone well"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Economy/EC) [Hurd's trip to Israel seen as a disaster] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Italian Prime Minister") [agenda for Rome European Council] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [protection for SMEs] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping: Impact on School Budgets") [next year's capping exercise to be more extensive] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French views on the European Council") [Jay conversation with Elizabeth Guigou] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Local Authority Finance: 1991/92") [criteria for charge capping] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome telegram 877 to FCO (1610Z) ("Informal European Council: Italian views on the agenda") [seeing MPs "Andreotti unsurpringly placed preparations for the two IGCs, at the top of the European Council agenda"] [declassified Spt 2019] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [public expenditure negotiations; social security budget; economic forecast; the Gulf; family policies on taxation and child benefit] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl on EMU") [Kohl on French TV suggests 1 January 1994 as the starting date for stage 2] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Sir Michael Butler fax to Powell ('EMU') [Butler discussion with Padoa Schioppa] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [efficiency savings, tariff increases] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Bush & Scowcroft memoir |
Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt] |
|
90 Oct 18 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2357Z) ("Primakov's Visit") ["Primakov got a strongly negative response from the President ... to suggestions for a face-saving way out for Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2546 to FCO (2323Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the mood in Washington") ["Administration remains uncompromising over the need for full implementation of the UN resolutions. But no suggestion this requires an early decision on the military option in the absence of a provocation"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2548 to FCO (2358Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Administration "concentrating in the first instance on relations between Israel and the Arab states"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: New York Times") [King Hussein claiming MT told him US troops were "half way to Saudi Arabia" before they were formally requested] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1681 to FCO (0200Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait Security Council resolution") ["No progress. Americans still do not have clearance. Council will revert to occupied territories on 19 October"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1683 to FCO (1945Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Americans agree to SCR as drafted by the Five. Text submitted to other Council members"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Foreign Secretary minute for MT ("Egypt, Israel and Greece") [account of visit; difficulties in Israel ("I landed in the mud and am sorry if this caused you difficulty"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Kuwaiti Crown Prince & Prime Minister letter to MT (Kuwaiti People's Conference) ["Your commitment to ending tyranny and torture is truly noble"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to General Scowcroft (Cradock visit to Washington) ["He will not want to get sensitive areas of military strategy and planning"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Gulf Crisis: visit by Mr Primakov") [background] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 minute for MT ("Interview with Al-Hayat Newspaper") [background, draft and Powell rewrite] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Ingham minute for MT ("European Council - Rome") [key points briefing for Sunday Lobby] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Italian Prime Minister") ["I think your approach should be that frankly we doubt the utility of the meeting. But since it is being held, it should focus on the real issues of importance"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Future Service Share Methodology") [teachers' pay settlement] [released July 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child benefit and PES") ["Understandably, Mr. Newton sees attractions in his concept of a "family premium". But you may feel that you and colleagues should consider the new policy departure more thoroughly"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [MT's "detailed points on the proposals"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Conservative Chairman briefing ("Eastbourne by-election - line to take") ["The parrot has twitched!"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Gulf, Industry) [SPD win Eastbourne] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("State Visit by President Cossiga") [outline agenda, with FCO briefing] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation to ensure full benefit of reduction is passed on] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge 1991-92") [RSG settlement, use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rates") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92") [likely to lead to criticism that authorities will escape capping by cutting education services] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [capping proposals will be controversial] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92: Wales") [agreement with local authority associations] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral Meeting with the Chancellor") [central forecast: exchange rate; wage settlements; oil prices; inflation forecast] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("The October Forecast") [expected growth of 0.5 percent in 1991; high figure for 1991 community charge] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU") [Kohl's suggested date for stage 2 "will have pleased the European lobby and displeased the financial community"] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [essential to show we have been prepared to grasp the nettle on defence] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [has reduced massively initial demands for savings but cannot justify going further] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [p0ssible solution to the gap between Lamont and King's positions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Child Benefit and PES") [family premium proposals] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks on Eastbourne by-election defeat (past by-election defeats had not prevented General Election victories) |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Speech to Finchley Conservatives |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Trivial |
Margaret Thatcher |
Remarks visiting Finchley |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Article for Inside the New Europe |
|
90 Oct 19 Fr |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Interview for la Repubblica |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Chronology |
Major |
[Chronology] |
Anglo-Italian summit at Chequers |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (0050Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: new regional security arrangements") [State Department thinking relayed by Dennis Ross; premature to go into detail] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1687 to FCO (0430Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") [SG briefs Council on decision not to send his mission; growing pressure for a new resolution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0455Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [US agree MSC meeting, but MT opposes because "no agenda or purpose"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Eastern Province: contingency planning") [advice to UK citizens] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Proposed meeting with King Fahd: present Saudi thinking") [to discuss timing - "risk of diminishing appetite for a fight, and concern that time turning against Alliance"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 20 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andreotti) [Italian politics; Cossiga state visit; European Council; the Gulf; GATT; CSCE; aid to USSR; South Africa; seat of the institutions; IGCs; EC/US; Gorbachev; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Mr Heath's Press Conference") [Heath states "assurance from Saddam that a number of detainees would be released"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Heath Mission, situation at UN, Primakov, Kuwait Embassies, Jordan etc), military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/Italy: Powell minute to MT's diary secretary ("European Council, Rome") [MT wants a briefing meeting ideally on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's interview with Al-Hayat newspaper") [draft answers for written interview] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("The Gulf: French views") [Charles Powell, Jacques Attali] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Brent Scowcroft) ["Americans... very unhappy about the way things were going at the [UN]"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [clarification that Heath visited Baghdad in private capacity; FRG government under heavy pressure to allow Willy Brandt to undertake similar mission] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf") [meeting with Hurd & Tom King: strategic objectives; sensitive issues] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Prime Minister of Japan letter to MT ("The Gulf") [report of his visit to Middle East] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 216 to Cabinet Office (2242Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: technical and scientific aspects") ["could possibly produce a crude nuclear device by the end of this year"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 215 to Cabinet Office (2232Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: politics and economics") ["Saddam confident of his internal position. CIA concerned about the continued reliability of some of the Arabs [coalition allies]... if [Saddam] thinks war imminent, he will take preemptive action"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1695 to FCO (1935Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Exchanges with the Americans, Yemenis and PLO... in light of events in the Occupied Territories over the weekend"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Situation in Kuwait") ["a dying city... non-Iraqi population evacuating"; Iraqi military morale reported to be low] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child benefit") ["Either a further freeze or up-rating child benefit would... be clear and defensible on grounds of principle. But Tony Newton's proposal would not"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Politics, Community Charge) [American mood on Iraq] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 minute for Powell (arrangements for President Cossiga's address to Parliament) [order of play] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) ["discussion was largely of a philosophical nature about the problems of modern society, including criminality, drugs and terrorism"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Lilley minute to Chris Patten (Community Charge Capping 1991/92) [a firm line must be taken] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge 1991/92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Hunt (consultation papers) [job-related accommodation] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [must not set local government impossible targets] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/Gulf: FCO minute to Powell ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl: Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 Oct 1990") [German financial support for British deployment to Gulf; aid to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Delors letter to Hurd ("Commission opinion of 21 Oct 1990 on the proposal for ... political union") [mentioned in Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [declassified Spt 2019] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [ERM entry; interest rate cut; public spending round] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to Privy Council Office ("Scrutiny Debate on Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor wishes one to take place before Dec 1990 IGC] declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Treasury letter to Chief Whip's PS ("Motion for ERM Debate 23 October") [motion agreed with No.10 for tomorrow's debate] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Lilley PS ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [first priority is to seek efficiency savings] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Barry Potter ("Public Expenditure Survey: Progress Report") [top priority must be to defeat inflation and maintain confidence in economic policies] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lamont PS ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [Lamont and King should resume discussions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2561 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Baker's Speech to the American Committee on US/Soviet Relations") [summary/analysis] [released Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 22 Mo |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Minor |
Margaret Thatcher |
Interview for TV Times |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Tom King) [major issues in advance of military operations against Iraq: "downfall [of Hussein]... would be a desirable side-effect of our actions"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraqi missile deployment") [SCUD-type missile identified; likely to be more; notifying Israel] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [Waldegrave meeting with Charles Jones & Peter Gummer of Shandwick PR firm: note of their advice on state of US public opinion] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1710 to FCO (0325Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps Resolution") ["ways of dealing in parallel with the Gulf crisis and the situation in the Occupied Territories"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1704 to FCO (0150Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") ["high-level meeting of MSC members"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("draft Social Security Uprating statement") [suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute (internal) to Turnbull (policy changes agreed during course of annual Public Expenditure Surveys) ["two reasons why such agreements should be brought to the attention of other Ministers"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, Tony Newton, Tim Renton) ["Social Security uprating 1991-92"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: Howe letter to Tony Newton ("DSS legislation 1990-91: child maintenance") ["I am unhappy about embarking on this bill on the basis you propose"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Child Benefit) [Hussein in Kuwait] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (Delors press conference) [pre-Rome European Council review; Delors suggests December Council should set date for EMU Stage 2, with only two hour talk on political union] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on school provisions] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten (Charge Capping) [police and fire authorities] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 22 Oct 1990") [Carli report on EMU to be forwarded to European Council, Italian presidency advising that preparatory work was complete] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 471 to FCO (1400Z) ("Turksat") [BAe hopeful again following suspension of Turkish negotiations with Aerospatiale] [declassified Dec 2017] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Bush Library) |
Gulf War: George Bush letter to Israeli PM (Yitzhak Shamir) [declassified 1999] |
|
90 Oct 23 Tu |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1731 to FCO (1445Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Negative Israeli reaction to latest US approach over Secretary General's mission. Americans instructed to seek amendments to non-aligned draft resolution, to enable them to vote in favour"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1730 to FCO (0145Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Americans adopt my idea of a last attempt to get the Secretary-General's representative into Israel... but unless... [they] can pull off a coup with Shamir, there seems no way in which they can avoid a [UN resolution] vote on 24 October"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2589 to FCO (2355Z) ("The Gulf: authority for the military option") ["US Administration considered that Article 51 gave sufficient authority... [but] it would be much easier to obtain Congressional acquiescence ... [if] authority given by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Kohl... most concerned that Saddam Hussein could succeed in his obvious tactic of trying to divide the West by selective release of hostages"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Foreign nationals in Iraq") ["French nationals... allowed to leave Iraq... a clear example of attempted wedge-driving"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Riot at site") [protest by Western hostages] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Parkinson minute to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Embargo Surveillance Centre) [welcomes MT visit and provides brief outline of the Centre's functions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 letter to MT (letter from the Prime Minister of Kuwait) [seeks advice as to whether reply needed] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Statement on the Middle East") [draft of Hurd's address to the House: Iraq/Kuwait; Israel] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: Hurd minute to Tom King ("Rolls Royce: engines for an Argentine frigate") [sale of spare parts to facilitate Argentine contribution to multinational force in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: President of the Commission of the EC letter to MT (financial assistance for countries most immediately affected by the Gulf crisis) [Turkey, Egypt, Jordan; UK concerns about EC decisions involving major expenditure] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Council: Rome: 27/28 October 1990: EC issues") [Soviet Union/Eastern Europe; GATT/agriculture; EMU; political union] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign policy/EC: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council in Rome; Ambassador to South Africa; "You might also needle Delors about his reported comments on a federal Europe"] [declassified Jul 2019] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 (Social Security uprating) [final draft of Tony Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ted Heath, Economy, EC) [hostages in Iraq] [released Feb 2020] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rate Poundages") [transitional arrangements for SMEs] [released Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome European Council agenda) [no mention of GATT Uruguay round] [declassified Dec 2016] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UK Permanent Representative Brussels minute to FCO ("European Council: draft conclusions") [Kerr commentary on text he had acquired] [declassified Spt 2019] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Council: FCO briefing for Foreign Secretary ("Special European Council, Rome: SoS's bilateral with the PM, 25 October") [agenda] [declassified Spt 2019] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Council: FCO briefing for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: Brief No.1 Political Union") [objectives, points to make and background] [declassified Spt 2019] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ('EMU') [MT should study carefully Commons speech by John Smith, seeking to drive wedge between her and Major over EMU] [declassified Jun 2018] |
|
90 Oct 24 We |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
Written Interview for Al-Hayat |
|
90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1734 to FCO (0317Z) ("Secretary General's mission to Israel") ["Resolution deploring Israel's refusal to receive mission... passed unanimously... Bein (Israel) accused the Council of having been diverted from the real issue of Iraq/Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2602 to FCO (2128Z) ("Ad hoc consultations of members of the Military Staff Committtee (MSC)") ["US express "disappointment" that UK will not be sending senior military representative... for meeting on 29 October"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 note to MT (overnight telegrams & article in Times newspaper) ["this week-end's unnecessary European Council"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 minute: Cradock to Powell ("The Gulf: US views on UN authority for military action") [MT endorses US reservations about practicality of obtaining a further UN resolution as a precedent to military action] [declassified Jul 2017] |
|
90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [UN resolution; letter to Emir of Kuwait: Article 51; Primakov peace mission; US intentions; British communities at risk; Saudi views; meeting with Mitterrand; Iraqi intentions; sanctions; Chief of Defence Staff meeting with Gen Powell; Iraqi missiles] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO telegram 1845 to UKE Washington (0845Z) ("Quadripartite meeting of Political Directors: Gulf") ["Agreement on short and long term aims, including need to limit Iraqi military threat after crisis. US attaches importance to international approbation for any military action... Arab/Israel peace process"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Heath) [Heath's report of his meetings with Saddam Hussein and King Hussein of Jordan; Heath "critical of the trend of our policy"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Hurd) [too risky to invite Gorbachev for a State Visit in 1991] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council in Rome") ["It is set to be a fairly trying occasion" - European political union; EMU; USSR & Eastern Europe; the Gulf; trans-Atlantic relations; sites of EC institutions; Greek loan] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
European Council: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("European Council: European Monetary Union") [must stick to line that Hard Ecu COULD evolve into a single currency] [released Feb 2020] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, Gulf, EC) [IRA's "human bombs" attacks in Londonderry and Newry] [released Feb 2020] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92 Charge-Capping") [opposed to any dilution of the criteria] [released Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/GATT: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome European Council agenda) ["we may need to have a good discussion of the GATT Uruguay round"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC/France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council 27/28 Oct and the PM's bilateral with meeting with Pres Mitterrand: scene setter") [sees EC issues through prism of Franco-German balance; Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Secretary of State's bilateral with De Michelis on 25 October") [Council agenda; "foresaw no difficulty in round table discussion of political union in Rome", might be possible to fix starting date for Stage 2 ] [declassified Spt 2019] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Howe PS record of conversation (Howe-Major-Ibbs) [planning and control of expenditure on the works service vote] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 25 Th |
Speeches, interviews, etc. |
Major |
Margaret Thatcher |
House of Commons PQs |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: Hurd minute for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: 27/28 October") [Italians want to focus on preparations for the two IGCs; wants target date for transition to EMU Stage II] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
EC: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Kohl) ["Special European Council in Rome" - hostages in Iraq; date for transition to EMU Stage II, GATT] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1748 to FCO (1400Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Next Steps resolution... 'peace offensive' draft... The optimism evident at the earlier meetings was quickly dissipated as the Yemenis and Cubans engaged in a prolonged filibuster"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (2121Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Americans are under no illusions that air power alone could bring victory... no US led offensive is likely until the higher lever [of US ground forces] can be reached... support [of US public] for the President's Gulf policies... remains pretty steady"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to MODUK ("UK journalists in Saudi Arabia") ["Assurances from the King that British press corps should not decrease in numbers"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: German assistance to British forces deployed to the Gulf") ["Cost has been and remains the hurdle"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, French Ambassador to UK) ["Military Staff Committee"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, US National Security Advisor) ["Gulf crisis": Primakov peace mission to Iraq; US military build-up in Saudi Arabia; US Secretary of State visit to Middle East & London; GATT negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Prince Bandar") [concerns about possible private negotiations between Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi Arabia; reliability of European allies; Jordan; Syria; treatment of UK journalists in Saudi Arabia; Westland: Black Hawk trade prospects with Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [Hammersmith and Fulham case before the Lords for a judgment] [released July 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [possible outcomes of Lords' judgment on Hammersmith case] [released July 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Draft statement on child maintenance") [Tony Newton statement to Parliament: suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Education: John O'Sullivan memorandum to MT (education as a major plank in government programme and manifesto) ["consider bringing back Norman Tebbit as Education Secretary"] [released Feb 2020] |
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90 Oct 26 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
European Council: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Rome: Special European Council: remarks on 23 October by M. Delors") [Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [released Feb 2020] |