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Archive (Thatcher MSS)
Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Conservative Party: MT handwritten drafts (party conference) [Inner Cities, Foreign Affairs, Education, Socialism - defeat of, Economics] [released Oct 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 1/1/37 f3
Editorial comments:

Undated, listed by estimate. Some of the pages are written on Chequers notepaper, so Saturday 26 September was plumped for. MT usually drafted some sections of the speech by hand herself, which were then typed and fed into the speechwriting process.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 9pp
Themes: Education, Society, Economic policy - theory and process, Employment, Industry, Public spending & borrowing, Foreign policy - theory and process, Environment, Conservatism, Labour Party & socialism, Leadership