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PDF 90 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Richard Ryder ("Jack Committee on Banking Services Law and Practice: Proposed Government Response") [satisfied draft reflects points of Scottish interest] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Bruce Anderson - Sunday Telegraph") [wants to be helpful "at the end of what was billed as 'your worse week'"; don't be drawn into criticism of Lawson] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Budget/By-Election) [deterioriating situation in Eastern Europe] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main News, Mid-Staffs by-election, MT's Royal Society speech, etc) ["Maggie's Day of Disaster"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray briefing for MT ("Community Charge") [control over local authority spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: John Major minute to Christopher Hawkins ("Capital Limits") [concern about DSS rules] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics) [Gorbachev's troops take over Kremlin] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Paul Gray ("Holiday Caravans & Standard Community Charge") [announcement of short bill, issue of long-stay hospital patients] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Politics) [piling on the turmoil in Tory Party] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Peter Walker minute to Anthony Newton (late billing) [impact on income support claimants] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Standard Community Charge") [reconsidering the government's position for 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Presentation") ["Entry into the ERM is probably THE issue which would really confound your critics and confuse your enemies"; concert economic presentation with Major] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Lithuania) [Lithuanian president appeals to West for help] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Waddington minute to Richard Ryder (Jack Committee) [government response; money laundering] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Houston Economic Summit: Meeting of Sherpas in San Francisco") [East and Central Europe, world economy, debt and development, north/south summit, trade] trade, environment, drugs] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Mar 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Iraq) [attempts to export nuclear detonators to Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Ridley minute for MT (his visit to Poland and the USSR: contrasts between governments, economies and peoples) [declassified 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to Policy Unit ("Community Charge: Relieving the Burden") [options for 1990-91, 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: Relieving the Burden") ["capping will produce only modest results" in 1990] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Konigswinter speech) [Tebbit versus Heseltine for leadership, MT's views on East-West] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Paul Gray minute to MT ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [proposals for a revaluation of business rates then domestic rates] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Riot comment) [riot at Strangeways, riot in Trafalgar Square] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Jail/riots) [prisoners still control half of Strangeways] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Nicholas Lyell minute to Chris Patten ("Community Charge Capping 1990/91") [how to rebut claims that capping will disrupt services] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge: Relieving the Burden") [extra transitional relief scheme for 1990, spending limitations for 1991] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Prisons/riots) [Labour react angrily at capping of 20 Labour-controlled councils] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Wakeham minute to Norman Lamont ("BNFL: 1990 Pay Round") [opening offer; retrenchment and recruitment problems] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Robert Twigger letter to Mark Lennox-Boyd ("Community Charge Benefit") [points in each local authority where full charge becomes payable] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hong Kong bill) [up to 80 Tories expected to vote against] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Ken Clarke minute to Norman Lamont (public sector pay) [becoming increasingly concerned at settlement levels] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office Finance Division minute to No. 10 ("1992 Economic Summit") [funding for the Summit] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Strangeways riot, Community Charge) [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: March 1990") [monetary indicators out of kilter with those for the real economy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: John Major minute to MT ("Outlook for RPI/TPI: March and April 1990") [rise in annual rate of inflation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Gray minute for MT ("Economic policy over the next year") [valedictory thoughts - what went wrong; where are we now; where do we go from here] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Hostage Release) [France comes in for press criticism] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("RPI and the Community Charge") [concern over level of RPI and artificial element created by inclusion of Community Charge] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT (RPI, unemployment figures) [exchange markets largely unaffected] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Bermuda: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush) [Economic Summit; Uruguay Round; EBRD] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 Apr 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Peter Brooke ("General Revaluation in Northern Ireland") [MT's concern that an announcement would give impresion that local government finance policies are getting out of line with the UK] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Teachers) [Lithuania asks US for help against Soviet threat to cut energy supplies] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Christopher Chope minute to ministers ("You and the Community Charge: Rents") [publicity leaflet for tenants] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, The Gun - comment) [Soviet-Lithuania conflict escalating] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Balance of Payments") [March deficit figure second worst on record] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [Norman Tebbit crushed in Hong Kong vote] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Provisional Money Figures - March 1990") [Bank of England publication] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Balance of Payments") [large March deficit] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("The Community Charge") [treatment of composite hereditaments; liability for non-working wives] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Schools/race) [latest polling, Community Charge, situation in Eastern Europe] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [riots in Bristol] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Control of Inflation (Local Government) Bill") [major constitutional change to introduce a central, statutory constraint on local authority spending] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Obstacles to a Free Market in Financial Services in the EC") [Michael Scholar sees German measures as prudential rather covert exchange controls] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Strangeways) [prison siege ends] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (EC Summit, Strangeways) [Conservative critics of Community Charge, prison riot, European unity] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Cabinet Office minute to Treasury ("1992 Economic Summit") [funding for the Summit] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major (RPI and Community Charge) [capping decisions] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Apr 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [predictions for local elections] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, EC) [Kinnock says Conservatives are ready to get rid of you] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, EC, Community Charge presentation comment) [Gorbachev and May Day protests in Moscow] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge and US Service Personnel") [intention to pay compensation to certain parishes in England] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge, Elections, Hostages comment) [pressure to open talks with Iran] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Informal talks with Dutch Prime Minister: 1 June") [MT drops plan to invite Lubbers] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 90 May 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note for the record (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [visit to Italy; single currency; Community Charge; IMF] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("Houston Economic Summit") [work on science and government topic, planning for year 2000] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT (Sunday lobby following local elections) ["challenges to your leadership falling away ... a quite remarkable transformation of fortunes "] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Sunday Newspapers") [a pretty good press, "main threat remains inflation and your own side", but little doubt local elections strengthening MT] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: FCO minute to Cabinet Office Finance Division ("1991 London Economic Summit") [funding for the Summit] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Major says inflation will fall by end of year; Heseltine article giving alternative to community charge, etc) [MT marked text] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (football violence) [soccer authorities cave in to Home Secretary] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 10 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Treasury minute to Cabinet Office Finance Division ("1991 London Economic Summit") [funding for the Summit] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Community Charge) [Heseltine calls for urgent changes] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Major PS letter to No.10 (RPI figures) [points to make against RPI as a measure of inflation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Houston Economic Summit") [East/West relations, trade and Uruguay Round, environment, drugs, world economy] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [economic situation; Community Charge] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (government) [conflicting views on the economy, Community Charge] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Attorney General's Chambers to Department of Environment ("Community Charge") [local government grants and spending] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Eltham bomb comment) [civilians injured in IRA blast] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Party policy) [fears over BSE spread, Gummer says beef is not a health risk] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office note for MT ("Functions of Local Authorities") [scope for exercising greater central government control] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, BSE, Ravenscraig) [Commons set up inquiry into BSE] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Alan Walters") [economic policy issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to Robin Butler ("Functions of Local Authorities") [which level of government has control over education] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (ERM rumours, East-West, BSE) [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Balance of Payments: April Figures") ["not very good news" - substantial growth in imported consumer goods] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Barry Potter minute to MT ("New Techniques of Monetary and Credit Control") [analysis of Treasury paper and Chancellorial minute] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Wakeham) [a good weekend for the government, Labour's new policy document under attack] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (John Wakeham) [a good weekend for the government, Labour's new policy document under attack] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Chelsea Flower Show) [Labour trying to distance itself from Militant] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: Tuesday 22 May") [new techniques for monetary and credit control] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 90 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Sherpa Meeting, Paris, 19-20 May 1990") [most difficult issues - Summit's message, USSR, Uruguay Round, environment] [released July 2017]
PDF 90 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Dominic Morris note to MT ("Community Charge Benefits") [publicity on claiming benefit/transitional relief] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 May 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Major minute for MT ('EMU') [risk of "the beginning of a path to a two-tier Europe"; MT: "What's wrong with that if the other tier is going in the wrong direction?"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 May 30 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: EMU") [MT sceptical others would go ahead without us, and even if they did, does not believe UK should follow "a fundamentally wrong direction"] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 May 31 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Wicks) [EMU - MT rejects Major suggestion that UK should accept Treaty committing to EMU "leaving to individual states ... whether and when to join"; instead, campaign to instill doubts about EMU and in favour of alternative concepts] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office note ("The Community Charge") [controlling local authority spending, community charges in 1991-92] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("The Community Charge") [enhanced capping regime] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 90 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Summit comment, SDP Comment, China) [Gorbachev summit ends without agreement on Germany or NATO] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Summit, SDP/Owen) [general downbeat air about Summit outcome] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union") [follow-up work commissioned after MT-Major meeting - North Atlantic Free Trade Area, buidling up NATO's political side, objective reference standard for world currencies] [declassified Jun 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Gorbachev) [mounting troubles for Gorbachev, Anglo-Soviet relations] [released Feb 2020]

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