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Letter to Peter Morrison MP (resignation)

Document type: Speeches, interviews, etc.
Venue: No.10 Downing Street
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR
Editorial comments: Peter Morrison was moving from ministerial office to become Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 109
Themes: Executive (appointments), Conservative Party (organization)

Dear Peter,

I hasten to say that I am not intending to write to you the normal letter for Ministers leaving the Government! Indeed, I hope that there will be an opportunity in future years for you to increase your contribution to public life as one of Her Majesty's Ministers. But I do want to say how very grateful I am for your generosity in agreeing to leave the Department of Trade and Industry for the task in Central Office. As I told you this afternoon, that task is an absolutely key one if our Party and the policies which we stand for are to win through.

Yours ever

Margaret

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