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PDF 89 Mar 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute for Cabinet Office ("Daily Mail Interview on Europe") [submit new briefing, with 'stilettos'] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Mar 19 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Reshuffle") ["Your comments suggest that you may consider moving or even dropping the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department circular ("Euro-Election 1989") [arrangements - David Cameron as 'runner'] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Daily Mail interview") [EC - "The UK - and yourself - have a presentational problem. We appear negative, even hostile, to the EC 16 years after joining it"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Walters-Turnbull-Gray-Powell) [reformulating her position on ERM entry] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Vauxhall and Glasgow Central By-Elections") [European elections "news better", "your prediction of neck and neck may prove about right"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd minute for MT (seeing McAlpine tomorrow for dinner) [he is critical of European campaign] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Visit to Central Office") [enclosing Brooke speech to Welsh Conference explaining European election defeat] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 25 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party/ERM: MT note on meeting with Howe and Lawson ("G.H. and N.L. Madrid Conference") ["Demanded that I give an undertaking to join the ERM and specify a date .... If not - they would both resign"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Kenneth Baker") [his remarks that "you were partly to blame for the 'failure of the Party in last month's Euro-election'"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Director Conservative Research Department briefing ("Report on 1989 Euro-Election Campaign") [too negative, substance not presentation the problem] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: David Cameron minute to Director of Conservative Research Department (DTI contribution to Conservative European manifesto briefing) [Single Market] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Madrid Summit") ["Seen from London, it seems that the judgment of the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary was faulty"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party/ERM: Note on ministerial views (joining ERM) [Waddington, Gummer, Rifkind, Clarke, MacGregor, Wakeham, Fowler] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Jul 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO briefing ("Monthly Polling Review May/June 1989") [figures back to Jan] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Aug 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Monday lunches") [invite more editors; reshuffle got bad press partly because Howe invited them to Chevening] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Sep 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Daily Express interview") [topics; say as little as possible about reshuffle] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Sep 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd note for Amanda Ponsonby (arranging MT meeting with Sir Geoffrey Howe) ["He is anxious about the meeting. I asked when? He said as soon as possible"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Nov 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham briefing for MT ("Panorama") [EC and other topics] [released Mar 2019]
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