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PDF 88 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European Community: Extension of Commission powers and competence") [need to "be prepared to 'terrorise' the Commission politically on the lines of the Bruges speech"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Labour conference comment) [Ron Todd speech, Kinnock's position] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [interest rates, mortgage tax relief, Rover/BAe, Heysel stadium disaster, Barlow-Clowes report, IRA media interviews] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, South Africa) [higher interest rates, Lawson's tax plans, Star Chamber, nurses' pay, Barlow-Clowes report, South Africa rugby boards] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Domestic policy: Charles Powell minute ("Prime Minister's Interview with 'Polityka'") [MT's approved answers to questions on: electoral successes, changes over last 10 years, economic transformation, trade unions, Thatcherism] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Public spending: John Moore letter to MT (thanks for her help resolving spending quarrel) ["You were right to say I was letting myself get a little trapped in a departmental view!"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Princess of Wales) [curbs on IRA interviews, Sinn Fein propaganda campaign, Labour attack on government's handling of economy, Lawson's position on economy, Diana's comments on family life] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation ("Minutes of the Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting") [Barlow Clowes collapse "the most serious financial matter" DTI "had dealt with for many years"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting ban) [criticism of ban on broadcasting by terrorist organisations, BBC's Gerry Adams interview, government spending, European rebuttal to Bruges speech] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backbench Home Affairs committee) [concern about ban on IRA interviews] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, child benefit, economy, environment, East-West relations) [Conservatives' poll lead, Irish churches, Italian ship collision, child benefit freeze, council houses, Barlow-Clowes, British Rail privatisation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Interview with The Times") [issues to mention: environment, Europe, MT's style] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Financial services: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Trade and Industry Backbench Committee meeting) [discussion of FIMBRA: "setting up a lifeboat is delicate"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Cranley Onslow) [child benefit, Barlow Clowes, NHS spending] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Hordern-Sheldon) [Comptroller and Auditor General pay] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Green Paper on legal professionalism, child benefit, public spending, broadcast ban, politics, East-West relations, defence) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Commons, MT's Times interview, MT's visit to FT, legal professionalism, merger policy) [MT's intention to stay on for fourth term] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, MT's Times interview, GCHQ, media, Soviet Union) [claims that the government is 'cheating' over social security] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security (and leak), television, MT's Hebrew University speech, Royal Ordnance, NATO/defence, visit to Poland, East-West relations) [Moore felt to have done well presenting social security uprating] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: Bernard Ingham minute (interview with Scotland on Sunday) [points to make: interest in Scotland, explain policies vigorously, devolve responsibility at community level] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Poland, health charges, North/South) [Autumn Statement, NHS funding, economic performance, Labour constitution and policies, MT's visit to Poland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Health policy: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backbench Finance committee) [Chancellor attended; concerns about "increases to NHS preventing a fundamental review"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, leak, eye/teeth charges, MT's visit to Poland, environment) [health charge rebels go home empty handed] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Autumn Statement, MT's visit to Poland) [boost for NHS spending, worries over inflation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Poland: Ingham minute for MT ("The Media on Poland") ["These past four days ... have been somewhat unreal in media terms"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Poland: Charles Powell minute for MT (leading articles on her visit to Poland) [praise "from some unlikely quarters"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Pensions, MT's visit to Poland, Broadcasting White Paper) [row over suggestion that Lawson mooted means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT (Meeting with Lord Goold) [to discuss Goold's position as party chair in Scotland] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Broadcasting White Paper, pensioners, MT's visit to Poland) [warm welcome for increasing TV choice, Lawson seen to have done u-turn over means testing pensioners' benefits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Presidential election, Chancellor's briefings, health/welfare, broadcasting, education, industry) [Bush wins easily, Labour MPs try to make a 'Lawsongate' out of briefings] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, President, students, soccer, economy) [Cabinet to decide whether Lawson should face censure motion over meeting with Sunday Lobby] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, King's Cross report, Chancellor's briefing, industry) [shock SNP victory over Labour in Govan by-election] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("David Frost") [MT should reconsider giving interview] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("David Frost") ["I very much hope you will reconsider giving David Frost an interview for TV-am"; MT insists: "it is Bruce Gyngell that I am really supporting"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Chancellor's briefing, MT's visit to USA, law and order, Northern Ireland) [nurses' grading, pressure on Lawson] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's speech, Gorbachev visit, MT's US visit, Washington, Chancellor's briefing) [MT's comments on freedom, red carpet for Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT draft speech for White House Banquet (farewell to Reagan) [remembers 1981 - "you told me ... that for all our economic difficulties, we would be home safe and soon enough"; cuts Churchill story] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: UKA Washington telegram 2796 to FCO (0430Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Washington: 15-17 November: A First Assessment") ["a state visit in all but name ... we love to be loved"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, Queen's visit to Russia, environment, business in community, law and order) [controversity over whether HM should accept invitation of state visit from Gorbachev] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute ("Robin Day and David Frost") [need to make arrangements for interviews] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Whitelaw letter to MT (thanks for invitation to Eve of Session dinner) [second year of Parliament tricky; her team stronger individually than a year ago] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Barbara Bush letter to MT (pleasure at meeting again) [remembers MT's first visit in 1981; last visit "just puts the icing on the cake for this superb President"; George W. and Laura Bush moving to Dallas] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security service bill, Queen's Speech, nurses, USA, Middle East) [likely opposition to water privatisation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'She' magazine") [questions about: working women, pensions, national debt, environment] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Queen's Speech, the Queen, Canada) [friction with HM over government policy, government cannot be accused of running out of steam] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: FCO to No.10 ("Request for an Interview with the Prime Minister from the Editor of 'Beeld'") [opportunity for MT to set out opposition to apartheid and need for SAG to grasp the reform nettle] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Security Service, environment summit, the Queen) [Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, social security, water privatisation, Northern Ireland, student demonstration, East/West relations) [Joe Haines attacks MT as the 'Great Dictator'] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) South Africa: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with Beeld") [arrangements] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, nurses, Ryan extradition, law and order, France) [Labour accuses Lawson of deception over trade deficit and rise in interest rates] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Ireland, Arafat, nurses, economy) [MT 'furious' over Patrick Ryan affair] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Nov 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Chancellor, IRA - Ireland/Belgium - EuroCourt, Euro Council, NHS, East-West) [government majority in economic debate, MT's relationship with Lawson] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Environment: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Conservative backench Environment committee) [Nick Ridley attended; NRA and water privatisation] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 1 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Transport: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Transport backbench committee meeting) [British Rail: discussion of supply of trains, privatisation, Channel Tunnel] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, MT's visit to Pyke Centre, MT's visit to France, Official Secrets Act) [Ryan extradition papers contained minor defects] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 4 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) India: Charles Powell minute ("Interview with The Times of India") [likely topics: Sikh terrorism/Sinn Fein, British aid to India] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-Frank Field) [development of the MDC in the Wirral, ecclesiastical issues, workplace schemes] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (New Boys dinner) [jottings on list of attendees] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Currie and eggs, Ireland, Gorbachev, trade) [Haughey gives impression Ryan won't be extradited] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Michael Bates minute ("Interview with 'US News and World Report'") [questions on: new US administration, East/West relations, Middle East, South Africa] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Mark Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (Tebbit meeting) [personal protection, his plans for a book] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Curried eggs, ECHR and Ryan, Employment White Paper, East-West) [It's all eggs today] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["Curried eggs not so hot today"], Labour Party, Gorbachev visit to UK, Gorbachev in USA, Curried Eggs, Transport) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news ["Eggs off the boil but not quite off the menu"], Gorbachev, eggs, Labour Party, politics, your visit to Asda, water privatisation, economy) [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news) [MT underlined passages on state of the NHS and schools, IRA broadcast interviews, lobby system, terrorists shoot down US plane] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, defence, EC) [continued fall out from Currie's egg comments] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, rail comment, media, GATT, EC) [Clapham rail crash and Armenian earthquake dominate] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Domestic policy: Lennox-Boyd record of conversation (MT-PPSs) [longer term problems, NHS review, selling privatisation, problematic county councils, agriculture] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, IRA, Clapham crash, Arafat) [row over Ireland's failure to extradite Ryan, Clapham crash still dominates news] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, Ryan, Clapham crash, East-West) [continued coverage of rail crash] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute ("Interview with 'Blue Peter'") [to help with their appeal for money for Kampuchea] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, defence, law and order, health, Ireland, Middle East) [compensation for egg producers widely canvassed] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Scotland: John Whittingdale minute to MT ("Scotland") [criticisms of party organisation in Scotland, lack of "drive or enthusiasm" in Scottish Central Office] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 18 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Bush family card ("Merry Christmas from the Bush Family 1988") [family photos in Maine] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Kinnock broadcast, research and development) [Kinnock does not rule out proportional representation but rejects electoral pacts] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, police murder, eggs, Armenian earthquake, Secrets bill) [police death in Coventry bank raid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, eggs, crime, OECD report, Secrets bill) [calls for Currie to be reinstated] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Terry Perks minute (Interview with David Frost) [questions on: British politics, environment, Northern Ireland, "kinder, gentler Britain", foreign policy] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, aircrash treatment, eggs, transport, West Germany) [258 passengers die as jet falls on Lockerbie] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, MT's visit to Lockerbie, other news) [extensive coverage of Pan Am disaster, assumption it was caused by a bomb] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham and Powell briefing for MT ("Your interview with David Frost") ["I would expect him to come over all smarmy at the end"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Main news, Lockerbie, home loans) [rise in interest rates main domestic story; Lockerbie tragedy main international issue] [released Jul 2018]

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