Europe/Bruges speech: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's speech in Bruges") [further comments] [released Jul 2018]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR5/1/5/569 f347
Editorial comments:	Remarkably, one of Young's junior ministers, Alan Clark, wrote to MT giving a personal view of the drat contrary to that of his boss. Read Clark's minute here. The FCO had quietly sought to sign up other departments to its draft.
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	3pp
Themes:	Monetary policy, Trade, European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, European Union Single Market, Defence (general), Executive, Conservatism