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| Date | Category | Type | Value |
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| 05 Oct 11 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Seldon [Arthur] (1916-2005) [free market thinker & IEA co-founder] |
| 07 Feb 22 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady returns, this time in bronze” (MT statue unveiled in House of Commons) |
| 07 Aug 17 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Deedes [Bill] (1913-2007) [Conservative minister, journalist and Thatcher family friend] |
| 07 Aug 14 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Biffen [John] (1930-2007) [Conservative cabinet minister, 1979-87] |
| 07 Sep 5 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Revealed: Thatcher’s unlikely admirer” (Gordon Brown press conference) |
| 07 Sep 14 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Iron Lady on the doorstep as Tories launch a doorstopper” (MT visits Gordon Brown at No.10) |
| 07 Sep 21 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Gilmour [Sir Ian] (1926-2007) [prominent Conservative critic of MT] |
| 07 Sep 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Tebbit hits out at Tories and names Brown as Thatcher’s natural heir” (General Election speculation) |
| 07 Oct 28 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “US dismissed Margaret Thatcher as suburban matron who would never win power” (State Department files) |
| 08 Mar 7 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Pym [Francis] (1922-2008) [Conservative Foreign Secretary 1982-83] |
| 77 Sep 14 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Tory leader denies split in party over closed shop" [Joseph-Prior spat over Grunwick] |
| 08 Apr 6 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “The real Lady Thatcher” (extract from Ferdinand Mount’s memoirs) |
| 08 Jun 7 Sa | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “My fair Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher’s Long Walk to Finchley” [BBC4 drama about MT in the 1950s] |
| 08 Feb 27 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Buckley [William F., Jr.] (1925-2008) [leading American conservative] |
| 04 Jun 5 Sa | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Reagan [Ronald] (1911-2004) [US President 1981-89] |
| 74 Oct 16 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Tories must look before they leap into line behind a new leader" (Bernard Levin) [Conservative leadership candidates] |
| 08 Jun 20 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "Margaret Thatcher: the early promise" (Matthew Parris) [MT as revealed in Times Archive] |
| 08 Aug 25 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “Margaret Thatcher's struggle with dementia revealed in daughter's memoir” [Carol Thatcher book serialised] |
| 08 Sep 5 Fr | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: “This is Alaska’s Margaret Thatcher” [Sarah Palin selected as Republican Vice-Presidential nominee] |
| 03 Jan 26 Su | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Obituary: Younger [George] (1931-2003) [Scottish Secretary 1979-86, Defence Secretary 1986-89] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservativsm: “Lord Vaizey’s change of party” (announces conversion from Labour to Conservative) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph blames full employment policies for inflation” (Peter Jay on KJ speech at Preston - “Inflation is Caused by Governments”) |
| 74 Sep 6 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Sharp Shock of Truth” (leading article on KJ speech at Preston) |
| 74 Jun 24 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph says choice is to go down with socialism or prosper in a rational economy” (KJ speech at Upminster) |
| 74 Aug 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Another call from Sir Keith to free industry” (KJ speech at Leith) |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “Sir Keith Joseph denies bid for Tory leadership as critics mount attack ” (KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 74 Oct 21 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: “The Public Morality” (leading article on KJ speech at Edgbaston) |
| 09 Sep 11 Fr | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | German unification: “Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German unification” (documents from Gorbachev Archive) [“Britain & Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany”] |
| 80 Jun 6 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “New moves over the Falklands” (Argentine Economy Minister meets MT & other British ministers) |
| 80 Nov 18 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Minister’s visit to consult Falklands people” (Nick Ridley & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 24 Mo | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Argentine anger over Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Transfer of Falklands sovereignty proposed” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 27 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Lord Carrington says Britain will honour wishes of Falklanders” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Britain puts forward four options on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) |
| 80 Nov 28 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “An Option For The Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [Third Leading Article] |
| 80 Dec 3 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Falklands: “Commons is united by suspicion of Ridley intentions on Falklands” (Nick Ridley visit & leaseback) [minister badly mauled in Commons] |
| 81 Mar 11 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper") |
| 81 Nov 28 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP: "Heath hints he might join a Tory-SDP coalition" ("There might be invitations ... which might be acceptable") |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Impassioned plea by Heath gets short shrift from Tories" (attacks government at party conference) |
| 81 Oct 15 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Chancellor launches onslaught on 'union irresponsibility'" (Howe clashes with Heath) |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Thatcher faces growing rift in Cabinet" (Tebbit speech - father "didn't riot. He got on his bike, & looked for work") |
| 81 Oct 16 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Monetarists warn wets: stop playing with fire" (Lawson & Walters speeches) |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "A Tory warning from the last ditch" (Chris Patten article) [give cabinet the benefit of the doubt "one last time ... some signs of change"] |
| 81 Dec 8 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Tory 'wets' set for rebellion on economy" (Gilmour Group) [around a dozen likely to abstain on Autumn Statement] |
| 81 Mar 5 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Communists heckle Mrs Thatcher in church" (St Lawrence Jewry speech) [MT: "you see why I fight these people"] |
| 81 Dec 7 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | SDP-Liberal Alliance: "Steel tells of talks with troubled senior Tories" (dissident Conservatives including junior ministers) [plus Gilmour attack] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Three Cabinet ministers sacked" (reshuffle) [purging the wets] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath blast at Thatcher's 'dreary path'" (Manchester speech) [MT rebuts] |
| 81 Oct 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Pathfinder for a Young Pretender" (leader on Heath's Manchester speech) [his views discounted] |
| 81 Oct 8 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Invitation that did not come" (Heath letter correcting leader) [never invited to join MT's team] |
| 81 Oct 9 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Troubled Ranks of Tuscany" (leader on Changing Gear ) [party in "the early stages of demoralisation"] |
| 81 Oct 10 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Mrs Thatcher can't expect blind loyalty" (Chris Patten article) ["truth ... lies somewhere in the middle"] |
| 81 Nov 19 Th | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | MT: "Thatcher drops a few names" (lunchtime speech in Bonn goes wrong) [officials cause her embarrassment] |
| 81 Dec 12 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Why Howe should heed that lorry rumble" (Geoffrey Smith article) [threat to Howe's survival] |
| 81 Dec 10 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "The Kamikaze Tory Rebels" (Ronald Butt article) [firing arrows into backs of their own side] |
| 81 Dec 9 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economy: "Howe attacked from all sides" (debate on Autumn Statement) [14 Conservative abstentions] |
| 81 Oct 13 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "'Blue Chips' to aid party in Croydon" (all 14 to visit) [demonstration of loyalty] |
| 81 Dec 3 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Heath scorns the 'pretence' of monetarism" (speech) [no intellectual basis] |
| 80 Mar 3 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism: a reply to the critics" (Friedman article) |
| 80 Mar 5 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Monetarism and hyper-inflation" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Mar 18 Tu | Press |
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Minor | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Free market" (Hayek letter defending Friedman) |
| 80 Mar 26 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "How to deal with inflation" (Hayek article) |
| 80 Mar 29 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Professor urges Chancellor to balance Budget now" (Hayek at IEA lunch) [wants "referendum to rescind every single [union] privilege"] |
| 80 May 31 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 80 Jun 13 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "A testing time for monetarism" (Hayek letter) |
| 81 Mar 10 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Economists criticize Government" (Hayek & Friedman on BBC Panorama ) [blaming wets] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Hayek letter on the 364 economists) ["lost generation of British economists ... panicky mob"] |
| 81 Apr 4 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Beating inflation key to recovery" (Harris letter on the 364 economists) ["charge sheet of those responsible for ... economic decline"] |
| 80 Nov 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "The Hayek cure: bigger and better bankruptcies" (Hayek interview) ["my hopes of Britain saving herself have shrunk a little"] |
| 81 Mar 16 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Budget: "Advice and consent" (Hayek letter) [does not act as an adviser "on particular decisions"] |
| 80 Dec 1 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Abuse of union power 'main cause of jobless'" (Hayek paper for IEA) [unions "cannot understand they are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs"] |
| 77 May 9 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The liberal teacher who turned his back on old age to lead world" (Seldon profile of Hayek) ["a liberal of the British classical tradition"] |
| 77 Jul 21 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union immunity under the law" (Hayek letter) [revoke privileges granted by Trade Disputes Act, 1906] |
| 77 Aug 2 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trade unions, being politically sacrosanct, have been allowed to destroy the British economy"] |
| 77 Aug 20 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Trade unions: "Trade union privileges" (Hayek letter) ["The trouble is that British trade unions refuse to accept the law which applies to everybody else"] |
| 80 Feb 26 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: Leading Article "The Road to Hyper-Inflation is paved with good intentions" (Hayek's annotated copy) ["shoot-out at the Downing Street corral"] |
| 80 Feb 12 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservatism: "The balance between individual and state" (Gilmour's Cambridge Lecture) [Hayek's annotated copy] |
| 80 May 7 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Steel: "Threatened revolt over steel chief collapses" (meeting between Joseph and Conservative backbench committee regarding Ian MacGregor appointment) |
| 81 Mar 24 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Mr Lawson attacks gloom mongers" [defence of 1981 Budget] |
| 81 Sep 15 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Monetary policy: "Lawson - Backing with gusto for monetarism" [Lawson enters the Cabinet] |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson pushes new-look NEDC to concentrate on specific issues" |
| 83 Jul 5 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Tory backbenchers warn Government against cuts in jobless benefit" ["failure to uprate unemployment benefit in line with prices would be strongly opposed"] |
| 83 Jul 7 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson demanding £500m cut in public spending" ["emergency plan for swingeing cuts"] |
| 83 Jul 8 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Spending cuts hit NHS and defence" ["package of £500m in expenditure cuts in the current financial year"] |
| 83 Jul 11 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Battle in Cabinet likely as Lawson plans more cuts" ["strong opposition is certain"] |
| 83 Jul 20 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson hints at tax cuts in return for spending curbs" |
| 83 Jul 21 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Taking the strain for annual tug of war" ["The start of the annual battle between the Treasury and spending ministries"] |
| 83 Aug 13 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson ready for revolt on dole cut" |
| 83 Sep 29 Th | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Our policies working - Lawson" [Washington speech "to extol the virtues of the Government's economic strategy"] |
| 83 Sep 12 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson's spending cuts warning" ["no sacred cows exempted from public spending cuts"] |
| 83 Sep 12 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Lawson seeks public debate on spending" ["the Treasury must lead a more open debate on the prospects for public spending and taxation"] |
| 83 Oct 21 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Economic policy: "Chancellor allows no respite in struggle against inflation" ["unswerving determination to reduce inflation further"] |
| 81 Mar 24 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Conservative Party: "Dry" [brief biography of Lawson] |
| 83 Apr 4 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Reshuffle: “Shadow of the axe over Whitelaw and Pym” (inspired post-election reshuffle speculation) |
| 83 Oct 6 Th | Press |
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Key | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "'Parkinson admits love affair" (Parkinson admits relationship with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 7 Fr | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Love affair puts Parkinson's future in doubt" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 8 Sa | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson given ovation at dinner" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 10 Mo | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Chance of Parkinson survival dwindles" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 11 Tu | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Parkinson's affair cost him Foreign Secretary's post" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
| 83 Oct 12 We | Press |
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Major | Commentary (The Times) | Cecil Parkinson: "Miss Keays 'nearly the Bermondsey candidate'" (Parkinson's affair with Sarah Keays) |
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