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Community Charge: Sherbourne briefing for MT (Conservative Local Government Conference) [timings, speech suggestions, background] [released Oct 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 2/6/3/103 f3
Editorial comments:

In the event MT paid only the briefest of visits to the conference, leaving half an hour after arrival to fly to Zeebrugge to visit survivors of the Herald of Free Enteprise disaster and to thank you Belgian rescue workers and medical staff.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 29pp
Themes: Environment, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Conservative Party (organization)