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Conservative Party: Acting Chief Whip note to Geoffrey Howe (Commons rebellion on aid budget division) [45 Conservative abstentions, 8 Conservatives against] [released 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: THCR 2/6/3/24/part1/ f20
Editorial comments: Read the debate and division list here. Cope was deputy Chief Whip, acting as Chief while John Wakeham recovered from the Brighton Bomb.
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Parliament, Conservative Party (organization), Economic policy - theory and process, Leadership