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11 Jun 22 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Agar (Jon) | MT: Jon Agar "Thatcher, Scientist" [study of MT’s scientific career & approach to science policy] |
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81 Jan 14 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Bank of England) | Economic policy: Dow minute for Governor (Wass meeting) ["despairing worry at the developing recession and the growing unemployment ... kickback if civil servants started to try to tell Ministers about politics"] [declassified 2011] |
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82 Jul 7 We | Press | ★☆☆☆ | Archive (Bank of England) | Monetary Policy: Press Association report ("Police Smash Forgery Racket") [suitcases of forged £20 notes found in gold-coloured Rolls-Royce stopped in Old Kent Road] [this copy released 2013] |
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80 Feb 22 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Hayek MSS) | Conservatism: Eric Heffer speech ("Tory leaders are no hypocrites, Mr Heffer says") [clash between "wets" and "dries"] |
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81 Feb 25 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Hoskyns MSS) | Budget: Wolfson minute to MT (comments on MT-Howe meeting) ["professional incompetence ... self-delusion ... Criminal Liability"] [released 2011] |
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84 Feb 3 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Speech by Hungarian Prime Minister (Gyorgy Lázár) |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: No.10 press notice (Ministerial Appointments) [Pym as Foreign Secretary, Biffen as Lord President, taskforce sets sail] [released 2013] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Ingham MSS) | Press Office: No.10 note of BBC Today ("Today summary April 5") [main news items; "Mrs Thatcher not looking for any resignations at present"] [released 2013] |
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07 Feb 21 We | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (Sir George Young) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher statue unveiled” (Sir George Young’s blog entry) |
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06 Mar 16 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | IEA Seminar (25th anniversary of 1981 budget) [Andrew Alexander, Terry Burns, David Laws, Stephen Nickell, Michael Oliver & Geoffrey Wood] |
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82 Mar 11 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Conservative Party: "Carlton Club celebrates with Thatcher as star" (MT unveils a portrait of herself at the Carlton Club) [released 2013] |
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84 Oct 12 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (Thatcher MSS) | Brighton Bomb: “To Kill the Cabinet” (“The story behind the Grand Hotel bombing”) [Brighton Evening Argus 40 page supplement] |
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80 Jul 15 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Defence Open Government Document 80/23 ("The Future UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force") [acquiring Trident] |
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85 Dec 27 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Press Association tape (developments) [new European move; bribery claim by Teddy Taylor] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Feb 15 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands/Belgrano: BBC Radio Interview with Sir Ewen Broadbent (Ponting prosecution) [exact course of events at MOD] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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85 Dec 26 Th | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Westland: Press Association tape (Heseltine cancels holiday) [needed at home] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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84 Aug 14 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Press tape story (Galvin incident) [Prior takes responsibility for mistakes] |
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85 Sep 24 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Local Government: Press agency report (“Liverpool Strike Cancelled”) [declassified 2014] |
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83 Jul 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Education: Department of Education & Science press release ("Education Secretary comments on HMI report") [quotes & copy of report] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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87 Nov 17 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of the Environment News Release ("Domestic Rates to be abolished in most areas of England in 1990") [Ridley written answer to Jeff Rooker] [declassified Feb 2018] |
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88 Dec 15 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Community Charge: Department of the Environment press release ("Most households to pay less with the Community Charge") [60 percent will pay less than under rates, Gummer tells Commons] |
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86 Oct 30 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Philips and Drew Economic Unit press release ("Sterling Threat to Chancellor's Tax Hopes") [can Lawson get away with a pre-election tax-cutting Budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Monetary Policy: Morgan Stanley press release ("An Opportunity in Gilts") [UK bond market looks attractive] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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89 Oct 19 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
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89 Oct 20 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Lawson, Howe in Commons; Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
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89 Oct 21 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
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89 Oct 22 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Sunday press on Lawson and Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018] |
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88 Nov 1 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Treasury press release ("Autumn Statement: Public Expenditure Plans") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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88 Nov 1 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Public spending: Treasury press release ("Economic Prospects for 1989") [outturn tables] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Apr 9 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Conservative Party political broadcast [what would Britain be like under Labour or the Alliance] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Sep 3 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Social Democratic Party political broadcast [pensions, arts funding] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 Apr 30 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [unemployment, crime, health] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 May 20 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [unemployment, pensions, crime, health] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 May 28 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: SDP Liberal Alliance political broadcast [education, teachers] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 Apr 29 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [education, health, pensions] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 May 28 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [health service] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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88 May 5 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [health service] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Oct 14 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [Labour agenda for national recovery] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 3 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Labour Party political broadcast [nuclear missiles] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 Jul 29 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Liberal Party political broadcast [by-election victories] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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88 Dec 14 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Liberal Democrats political broadcast [unemployment] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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90 Nov 16 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: IBA press release ("Merger between BSB and Sky") [breach of BSB's programme contract] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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88 Dec 13 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Broadcasting: Home Office press release ("Independent Television Levy") [proposed increase] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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82 Mar 2 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | France: Conservative Party International Office press release ("Visit of Monsieur Chirac on 3rd March 1982") [programme, attendees] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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80 Aug 29 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: FCO statement ("Human Rights Trials in the Soviet Union") [need for a searching examination of Soviet implementation of Helsinki Final Act at CSCE Madrid meeting; MT annotates - 'Excellent'] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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81 Aug 25 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("Five Years in Labor Camp for Preaching the Gospel") [trial of Minyakov] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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81 May 13 We | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: International Representation for the Council of Evangelical Baptist Churches of the Soviet Union news release ("KGB Rushes Trial of Baptist Pastor Dmitri Minyakov") [illegal investigation, further arrests] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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80 Nov 1 Sa | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Cold War: Ukraine Research Group press release ("Madrid: Con or Conference?") [human rights violations in Ukraine, economic situation] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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89 Jul 28 Fr | Press | ★★☆☆ | Archive (TNA) | Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office press release ("The Day of Peace Must Surely Come") [publication of book on developments in Northern Ireland] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Archive (TNA) | Falklands: Reuters report (1641Z) ('Falklands') [Costa Mendez telling reporters last night of despatch of Bahia Paraiso] [this copy declassified Jun 2017] |
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14 Dec 5 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Bastien (Frédéric) | Canada: Frédéric Bastien “Thatcher’s Green Light” (extract from The Battle of London ) [study of the patriation of Canadian constitution] [published 2014] |
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16 Nov 3 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Bermant (Azriel) | Middle East: Azriel Bermant "Thatcher's Diplomatic Initiative" (chapter 7 of Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East ) [1983-85] |
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08 May 1 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Cartledge (Sir Bryan) | Cold War: Interview with Sir Bryan Cartledge (Private Secretary to PM, 1977-79; UK Ambassador to Hungary, 1980-83; to Moscow, 1985-88) |
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98 Oct 1 Th | Press | ★★☆☆ | Collins (Christopher) | Editorial policy of site: Preface to Complete Public Statements of Margaret Thatcher, 1945-90 on CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1998) |
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14 Sep 15 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Collins (Christopher) | Budget: “The Origins of the Budget in 1980” (pre-history of the 1981 budget in events of Jul-Dec 1980) |
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82 Mar 3 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (Guardian) | Falklands: "Threat of Action on Falkland Islands" (Buenos Aires statement following New York talks) |
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82 Jul 4 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | "Shake up on welfare" [Howe speech foreshadows manifesto] |
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82 Jun 13 Su | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (News of the World) | "Well done, lads" [Cecil Parkinson speech] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (Sun) | “Falklands invaded by rebels” [Argentine flag raised on "remote isle of Grytviken (population 250)"] |
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82 Apr 4 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (Sunday Times) | Falklands: “Carrington: They must stay British” [Carrington statement in Lords Saturday session] |
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82 Apr 13 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sun) | Falklands: "No Deal!" [UK rejects Haig's peace proposals] [this copy released 2013] |
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82 Jul 11 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Pym defends UK right to Falklands” [response to Sunday Times article on FCO doubts as to British historic claim] |
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82 Mar 21 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Whitelaw rides out the storm to clinch victory for the doves” [pressure on 'Mr Wetlaw'] |
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82 May 23 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Pym's snap election alert” [Pym speech after war cabinet on main themes of re-election campaign] |
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82 May 16 Su | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Mugabe dilemma comes to No.10” [Carrington to attend lunch] |
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82 May 2 Su | Press | ★☆☆☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “The too-late look-alike” [look-alike of Lord Carrington] |
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82 Mar 28 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Sunday Times) | “Wily Willie” [critics won over] |
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78 Jul 11 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary ( The Times ) | EMS: “Treasury points out faults in ‘hurried’ currency proposals” (“sceptical to the point of contempt”) |
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83 Jul 15 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary ( The Times ) | Economic policy: "BMA accuses Lawson of 'fiddling the books'" [accused of making arbitrary calculation of overspend and consequent cut] |
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81 Oct 21 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary ( The Times ) | Economy: “Cabinet fails to agree cuts in public spending” [majority resist £5,000 cuts] |
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82 Oct 11 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “'H' always led from the front" ("Pride of VC's Widow”) [award of two Falklands VCs announced] |
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82 Oct 8 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Two Falkland VCs to be awarded" (awards to Colonel H. Jones and a Royal Marine NCO) [to be announced Monday] |
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82 Mar 19 Fr | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “New powers envisaged for police” [Whitelaw in Commons] |
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82 Jun 18 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Mr Nott and submarine” [letter from Lord Carrington denying claim that he prevented despatch of an SSN to South Atlantic as "too provocative"] |
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82 Jul 7 We | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Howe warning that pay rises may be non-existent” [speech to industrial correspondents, government likely to abandon public service pay targets altogether] |
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82 Jun 19 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Pym hoping to repair relations” [looks forward to better relations between Britain and Latin America] |
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82 May 14 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Crisis puts Cabinet unity under strain” [MT “seen by her admirers and her opponents, both inside and outside the Conservative Party, as being at odds with the majority of her Cabinet”] |
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82 Jul 6 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Pym begins economic discussions in Belgrade” [Yugoslav debt crisis] |
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82 May 13 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Tories uneasy over Pym's attitude” [even admirers worry he will concede too much "go the second mile to reach a negotiated settlement"] |
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82 Mar 21 Su | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Whitelaw faces sack over crime” [difficult week ahead; MPs believe he will eventually be fired due to row over rising crime rates in Britain] |
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82 Apr 23 Fr | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Pym thanks the world for support” [speech to Diplomatic Corps City banquet] |
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82 May 20 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Whitelaw outlines new stop and search powers” [speech to Police Federation in Scarborough] |
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82 May 24 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary: “From cavalry officer to crisis commander: the quiet pragmatist the Falklands could take to the top” [profile by Julian Critchley] |
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82 May 24 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Early election ruled out” [Parkinson rejects early election, Falklands "a national issue way above party politics"; Pym speech rebutted] |
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82 May 27 Th | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Pym affirms faith in EEC” [Commons speech] |
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82 May 28 Fr | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Home for Pym” [MT announces Pym to be allocated Chevening as his official country home] |
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82 May 31 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Colleagues vilify Pym as split with Thatcher widens” [deep rift with MT over Pym's insistence that eventually Britain will have to negotiate with Argentina] |
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82 Jun 1 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Foot sides with Pym on British commitment” [speech at Cooperative Congress] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Whitelaw silences his Tory critics” [fighting defence of his record at Conservative backbench committee] |
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82 Mar 23 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Argentines hoist a flag on Falklands” [South Georgia incident - FCO statement, sceptical of Argentine official involvement] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “'Work with police' call by Whitelaw” [speech to Conservative Central Council in Harrogate] |
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82 Mar 27 Sa | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Argentina aids 'invaders'” [its navy more stores landed for 12 Argentine workers, digging in for a long stay on South Georgia] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | Second leader: “Gunboat or burglar alarm?” ["The Falkland Islanders have to face the unpleasant fact that Britain is no longer a world power ... Britain should help them get the best arrangement possible"] |
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82 Mar 29 Mo | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Falklands tension grows” [five Argentine ships now in vicinity of South Georgia] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Carrington visit seen as rebuff to PLO” [Israeli Foreign Ministry denying it ever thought he would cancel visit] |
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82 Mar 30 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Carrington to speak on Falklands” [returning from Brussels to make Lords statement rather than flying directly to Israel] |
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82 Mar 26 Fr | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Carrington reflects on influence” [Chatham House speech on Britain's outsized role] |
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82 Apr 5 Mo | Press | ★★★★ | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “We Are All Falklanders Now” [leading article urging Carrington's resignation] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Press | ★★★☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “From youthful talent to pillar of government” [career profile of Lord Carrington] |
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82 Apr 6 Tu | Press | ★★☆☆ | Commentary (The Times) | “Carrington a man of honour” [tributes in House of Lords] |
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