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PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Armstrong minute to No.10 (MT’s trip to Vancouver: possible transport options) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute for MT (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“highly unsatisfactory” failure to agree 1986 budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Baker (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“1986 Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Croydon pilot scheme on educational assessment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cable Authority letter to Kenneth Baker (financial ideas) [development and allowances, enterprise zones] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [Parliamentary sub-committee unprecedented request for Cabinet paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Sex Discrimination and Shops Bills”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Public Bodies 1985”) [key statistics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the National Consumer Council letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [informal briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ridley letter to Brittan ("Arthur Andersen and Co") [LRT contract not to be renewed in light of Andersen's involvement in failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd; other firms to be invited to tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Defence ("Broad-beamed warship design") [MT wants Heseltine to give the matter his personal attention] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (bilaterals with cabinet colleagues) [proposed regular one-on-one meetings with selected colleagues; MT agrees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary minute for MT (Westland) [“the European solution would mean less competition and therefore increased costs”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 13 Dec) [refers him to Brittan statement 16 December] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (‘Fraud’) [ministerial meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Roskill Report’) [summary & comment] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4460 to FCO (1721Z) (“IGC: Brussels 16/17 December”) [Inter-Governmental conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4458 to FCO (1715Z) (“Foreign Affairs Council: 17 December 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [appointments for the Court of the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The teachers’ pay disputes: minute from the Lord President dated 12 December”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Teacher’s pay”) [pressure for enquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Alison note to MT (Michael Heseltine) [“he is not looking for an occasion to resign, & hopes - I judge - that he will not be sacked!”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 ("Departmental Responsibility for Heritage") [neither Office of Arts and Libraries nor DOE now want change; MT: "Leave well alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention”) [material for MT-chaired seminar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting") ["...the press again underlines the 'emptiness' of present Franco-German relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call by Foreign Minister of Japan: 21 January 1986") [Howe recommends MT meet with Shintaro Abe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Government reply to the Report for House of Lords select committee on overseas trade") ["...causes and implications of the deficit on the... [UK]'s balance of trade in manufactures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Terence Higgins MP (Government reply to the First Report from the Liaison Committee (Session 1984-85) on the Select Committee system) ["... the new Departmentally-related select committees set up in 1979 have now established themselves as a major, successful Parliamentary reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 11 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex J] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heseltine briefing press) [information from “my friend in the MOD”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (‘Fraud’) [MT, Brittan, Havers] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1067 to FCO (1430Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels: Italian Press reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the Education Committee (teachers’ pay) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [“there is no question of an attack on your block budget”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Patrick Mayhew (“DPP: Staffing of Fraud Work”) [“It is the quality and experience of staff employed on fraud work which may most need to be tackled”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (ultimatum "drafted but not sent") [“In this situation no Minister should use his position to promote one commercial option in preference to another - so long as he remains in Government”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act) [recommended approach to handling of the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [MT not prepared to accede to Italian requests to arrive the evening before] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Brittan minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [update on progress of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Declaration of the Ten on East/West Relations”) [MT concurs with view that statement is vacuous and that FCO should be pressed not to endorse such statements in future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John Wheeler MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [advice in advance of MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar: 8 January”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: David Trippier PS letter to No.10 (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Change in Soviet Arms Control Positions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [need for an alternative to GEC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German political scene") ["...the Coalition... looks far better prepared than the Opposition for the Election Campaign Year 1986. The economy is doing well by any standards."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee on Tuesday 17 December") [radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Edward du Cann) ["Salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to MT (Prime Minister González letter to Mrs Thatcher) [cover note only] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 7th ("Control of Local Authority Capital Expenditure") [also national non-domestic rates, interaction with housing benefit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 6th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 12 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex F] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Draft Cabinet minutes (“Westland plc”) [line discussed & agreed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Transcript of BBC Nine O’Clock News (Brittan interview) [Powell: “pretty inoffensive, though a technical breach of the ceasefire”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [Westland ‘ceasefire’] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Conservative MPs (Financial Services Bill) [published today - more effective system of regulation] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Law Officers’s Legal Secretary letter to Norgrove (‘Fraud’) [case conference notes on Lloyds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (“The Common Agricultural Policy and European Food Surpluses”) [briefing note for Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1208 to FCO (1810Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 16/17 December: German reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MacGregor minute for Biffen (“Using Private Enterprise in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John MacGregor letter to Lord Chancellor (“TSRB Evidence: Judicial Salaries”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Pattie PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [no agreement between ITAP and government on forcing access to BT ducts and wires] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell note (draft formula for cabinet) [concession to Heseltine on circulation of Westland paper; MT: "Not necessary - SofS did not so request"] [released Jan 2017]
Text 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary ("Departmental Responsibility for the Heritage") [MT believes it best "to leave matters alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [proposed deployment of additional battalion, background of PIRA violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison minute to Nigel Wicks (situation in Northern Ireland) [King apprehensive about situation deteriorating, feeling vulnerable and isolated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mark Carlisle MP PS letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to Hurd (“Prime Minister’s Crime Conference”) [advice in writing owing to prior commitment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Nimrod AEW: MacGregor's letter to Heseltine) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Legislation of 1986/87 and beyond") [manifesto ideas, with MT responses] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislation for 1986-87 and beyond") [thoughts on the legislative programme and Manifesto] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS note to No.10 (European Monetary System) [exchange controls] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [Howe proposal for Lord Richardson to act as intermediary between MT & President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Westland”) [European offer made - “has quite a lot both for the bankers and the shareholders”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (Lloyds & Johnson Matthey) [state of investigations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [MT wants close interdepartmental cooperation with Middleton group on fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Powell minute for MT (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [“not really worth it for one day”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1072 to FCO (1400Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels”) [Andreotti’s statement: Italy at a crossroads] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Younger (“Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (statistics on young male offenders) [“extremely disturbing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform: Keith Joseph’s letter”) [assessment and suggestions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 957 to UKE Dublin (1715Z) ("Chief Constable's Alleged Statement") [wish to assure Irish government of commitment to continuing and developing cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (dinner receipts) [MT eats modestly in the Commons canteen] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Peking telegram 328 to DTI (0713Z) ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [discussions with French on negotiating terms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Heseltine PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [could temporary nature of reinforcement allow it to be disguised] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Professor Anthony Bottoms letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Chemical Weapons and Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Norgrove minute to MOD ("Nimrod AEW") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") ["Following consideration in E(A) on 19 November... we now submit a draft... for colleagues' approval] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT letter to Marquess of Douro (King Carlos I's State visit to UK: invitation to address Parliament) [MT agrees to Marquess' suggestion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group: visit to South Africa) ["If not correctly... handled, this initiative could be damaging not only for South Africa but for the whole of the sub-continent"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter & minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“the Government should indicate, at least informally, that … it would prefer a British/European solution … will not be an easy one for you”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for MT (“Westland”) [Fanshawe conversation - Heseltine would resign if European offer not accepted; his “humiliation in Cabinet”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [HMT paper on possible implications for UK] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lord Chancellor letter to John MacGregor (“Evidence to the TSRB”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1986 Budget”) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [proposed meeting with teachers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Hurd (“Final report by Popplewell, J.”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute for MT (“Local Government Finance”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Channon minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [pressing need for UK to revise negotiating terms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [can make a start on replacing bombed buildings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (arms shipment) [shipment from the Netherlands to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [apologies and briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (visit to South Korea) [formal acceptance of invitation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Speech by the Netherlands Prime Minister on national and EC economic strategy") [summary & analysis] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: David Norgrove minute (‘Westland’) [overt & covert arguments in the Heseltine memorandum] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Home Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”s) [Home Secretary has not yet considered report] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (European School in Luxembourg: inspection reports) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Capital Expenditure Contracts”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: John Smith letter to MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [government should acquire “substantial holding”] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute (“Westland plc”) [rejects Heseltine argument that government should express a European preference] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 28 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI note ("Westland: Agreement between Sikorsky and Shorts") [summary of key points] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT ("Westland") [how to handle story that Gordon Reece advising Westland, visited Xmas at Chequers?] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Dec 29 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 29 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for MT ("Westland Letters") [from Teddy Taylor, John Smith & John Cuckney] [declassified 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [repeats case for MT arriving night before - "we do not want to give the Italians the impression these summits have become an unwelcome chore"] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [Hawke says a loan would not meet the concern which prompted the request] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Edward Gardner MP letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Prudential Corporation Chief Executive letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to John Wheeler MP (crime prevention seminar) [letter of thanks for briefing in advance of MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [brief for meeting; Home Office seem "a bit behind the game"] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“BAA pay”) [“prospects of privatisations together with BAA’s increased profitability have raised expectations”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Airports Bill”) [pressure from backbenchers for compulsory privatisation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to President Gayoom (Male Hospital) [terms under which assistance could be granted] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rates Green Paper”) [changes to the earlier draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney, next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Brittan's PS ('Westland') [commissions reply to Cuckney letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Heseltine's PS ('Westland') [restates 19 December position] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Brittan's PS (letter from Alan Bristow) [Bristow withdraws interest] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary letter to MT (draft, with Treasury coverning minute) [rejects any expression of government preference for European solution] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: M.L. Breeden PS letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Federal German economy") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Roskill, Lord Benson, Hurd, Hailsham, Brittan, Havers, Mayhew) [Roskill Report] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tebbit letter to Hurd (“Mr Churchill’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to Young (“Green Paper on Local Government Finance”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General's PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [advises reply to Cuckney letter should state "the fact that there are indications" that European projects would be jeopardised by a Sikorsky deal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses draft reply for MT to send to Cuckney] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [revised draft reply for MT to send to Cuckney] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) letter to Westland Board (sets out consortium proposal for Westland) [superior to UTC/Fiat proposals] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI briefing for Brittan ("Westland: Aerospatiale") [French arguments for European solution; draft reply for MT to Cuckney] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI briefing for Brittan ("Westland: some notes on the alternative industrial proposals and on recent press reports") [CDP annotates for MT: "Some very useful material here, which you might like to see"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 30 Dec) ["As long as Westland continues to carry on business in the UK, the Government will of course continue to regard it as a British and therefore a European company, and will support it in pursuing British interests in Europe"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Peking to FCO ("Clouds over China" - Times leader) ["commitment to reform remains unaltered"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Sir Robert Haslam (adverse economic effects of delays in major Public Inquiries) [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: No.10 minute to FCO (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [MT’s attendance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 3 to FCO (2300Z) (“Future US/Soviet meetings”) [conflicting reports of proposals for additional summits] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: DTI record of conversation (Lagorce-Michell bilateral) [French position was that Westland should stay “European”; CDP notes 'illogicality' of French position] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act) [cannot arrange a permanent loan] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke (Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act) [cannot arrange a permanent loan] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Williamson minute for Jay ("Revised Responsibilities of European Commissioners after Enlargement") [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: MT letter to Eldon Griffiths MP (seminar on crime prevention) [MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Younger ("Local government finance Green Paper") [draft chapter on Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Heseltine PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") [MoD Police Bill] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [MT to chair seminar focused on “practical results”; MT notes on seminar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Publication of 1986 Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“European Community: UK Presidency”) [FCO advice about contacts with other EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (“European Community: United Kingdom Presidency”) [objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Baker minute for MacGregor (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Prime Minister Willoch of Norway (Norwegian Government’s views on acid rain) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [Heseltine letter to Lloyds; CDP "encouraged DTI to counter-brief hard"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MoD minute to Charles Powell (“Torpedo Orders”) [press release, briefing on production order for Stingray] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (HMG's procurement plans for military helicopters) [no MOD requirement for Blackhawk, no export prospects] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: DTI fax to No.10 (“Westland”) [DTI briefing material on MT’s letter to Sir John Cuckney etc] [released Jan 2017]
Text 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: President Reagan letter to President P.W. Botha (presses case for reform) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (“Budget Preparations: Private Office Guidelines”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [Cuckney rang - Sikorsky offer improved, board "would strongly recommend it and would mount a strong campaign in support of it"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (“Westland”) [original of CDP minute on securing a letter from the Solicitor-General - "I think this is worth doing but don't place great reliance on it"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (Lord Hanson's position) [MT would wish to see Hanson letter to Wyatt] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: Sikorksky offer improved, but "they have now shot their bolt"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [follow up to Chequers discussion - Solicitor-General finds Heseltine letter contains a "material inaccuracy"; Powell suggests Solicitor write to Heseltine requiring correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing for DTI press office on MT letter to Cuckney & "Future European Collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ('Westland') [call from Cuckney: board decision to recommend Sikorksky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Britain to buy German APCs for Berlin") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rate reform: safety nets") ["Kenneth Baker has cunningly revised the 'safety net' so that it gives fewer bonuses to the North and makes life easier for London"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS ("Local government finance") [reply to Whitelaw minute of 23 Dec 85] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Tebbit letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [commends the draft case for privatisation and highlights points "...where the draft needs to be presented [more] convincingly..." including water metering] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute (“Guide to Expenditure Work in the Treasury”) [franchising and private finance proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Hurd minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [detailed assessment] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Lawson (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [MT ‘very sceptical’ about the proposal; "wait for Roskill"] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (meeting with the Chancellor) [the markets, Budget, Green Paper on Personal Taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 briefing for MT (bilateral with the Chancellor on budget and taxation issues) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (“Teachers’ pay dispute in England and Wales”) [recent developments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Howe minute to Hurd (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [UK “should not be left behind by other European governments and companies”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Prime Minister") [attaches "Fact Sheet"; important it should not be seen as a No.10 document] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to David Horne (MD Lloyds Bank) (Solicitor-General's letter) [no correction needed to Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Norgrove minute for Powell ('Charles') [Heseltine quoted on news calling Solicitor-General's letter "an astonishing piece of legal pedantry"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Westland Board circular to shareholders and press release (EGM 14 Jan 1986) [board recommends Sikorsky offer] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute to Armstrong ('Westland') [commisions reply to Ashdown letters] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Foreign Secretary's PS ("Westland: Comments by Commissioner Narjes") [records Howe's commitment to investigate comments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') ["material inaccuracies" in Heseltine's earlier letter to Horne which he should correct; Powell annotates it "very satisfactory"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Solicitor-General ('Westland') [no "material inaccuracies" needing correction] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI letter to Powell ('Westland') [encloses briefing over last few days at MT's request, plus 24 Dec note on NH90 project] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine PS letter to Powell ('Westland') [Heseltine wants government "to express again the preference it originally held for a European minority stake"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for MT (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control and the US/Soviet Summit") [consultations with experts: arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("French industrial policy") ["The essential fact is that the thirty years from 1945 to 1975... brought France's first full industrial revolution"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke PS minute to No.10 (“Our 1000 MECU Abatement”) [last instalment received] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MacGregor minute for Brittan (“Fraud”) [agrees need for increases in DTI manpower] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [not sure inquiry best ; do not rule out including it in Bill right away] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Chief Whip's office minute for Norgrove (“Roskill Report”) [right of the Chairman and members of a Committee to raise the matter in the House] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lord Young PS minute to Brittan PS (“1986 Budget”) [employment issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [company’s decision overshadowed by Heseltine letter] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Younger letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Report”) [Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (response to the final report of the Popplewell Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor) [markets driving up base rates; decision to wait till following day] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: UKE Rome telegram to Foreign Office (Italian statement about Westland) ["implications of great relevance to the process of European collaboration"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Unwin minute for Powell (replying to Heseltine letter of 6 Jan) [assesses his claims about 9 Dec E(A) decision on NADS] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks ("Draft speaking note on Westland") [for MT in cabinet - "We cannot go on like this"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Wicks (improved European offer) [to be announced at 1600] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT (cabinet tomorrow) [arrangements for briefing press: "It will be important to move quickly on Westland"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Paddy Ashdown (reply to his letters) [Powell and Armstrong drafts] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 7 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Solicitor-General letter to Heseltine ('Westland') [glad that Heseltine is confident his earlier letter was accurate, judgment his responsibility; concern at leak however] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link") [programme, timetabling] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: President Denktash of Northern Cyprus letter for MT (establishment of the EEC-Cyprus customs union: negotiations) [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rhodes Boyson letter to John Moore ("Short Bros PLC") ["...after a decade of losses, we had hoped for sustained profits in this and future years"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("The South Atlantic Fund") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform and negotiations) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group visit; Botha's forthcoming address to Parliament; South African govt strategy to address violent conflict] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, numerous officials, police, outside figures) [“Note of Prime Minister’s Seminar on Crime Prevention”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (encouraged by his response to EPG) [declassified ?2005]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [agrees with Hurd] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lawson, Governor of the Bank of England) [agreement to set up narrowly focussed enquiry into Lloyd’s] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”) [litmus test of government determination to tackle fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Kenneth Baker letter to Cable Authority (financial ideas) [extension of enterprise zones to parts of the cable system] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“The story off the boil”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Clarke letter to Hurd (Popplewell Inquiry report on safety and control at sports grounds) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Markets”) [interest rates moving up a little after rate rise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT,Chancellor, Governor, Eddie George) [decision to increase base rates by 1 percent in response to market pressure; resist firmly any further pressure] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT speaking note for cabinet ("a word about Westland") ["We cannot go on like this … even questions of fact should be cleared through the Cabinet Office"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: FCO telegram to UKE Rome (Italian statement about Westland) [tell them "not helpful for governments to make statements about matters of this kind which are internal to the UK"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Cabinet Discussion") [revised draft speaking note] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Cabinet Office (request to concert replies to PMQs by Austin Mitchell MP) [encloses] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell letter to Heseltine's PS ('Westland') [MT refuses to reopen decision to express no preference between offers; drafts also] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Association of District Councils letter to MT (seminar on crime prevention) [courtesy letter for invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for December 1985") ["...the improvement visible since the beginning of the autumn has continued."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Local government finance Green Paper foreword") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Local government finance studies: draft Green Paper") ["The proposal likely to attract the greatest public interest - and the fiercest political controversy - is that to replace domestic rates with a community charge"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("South Africa") [details of Reagan's newly-formed "South Africa Working Group" and of its proposal for twenty black College Presidents to visit S. Africa and to meet with MT in London on their way back] [declassified Feb 2016]
Text 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“AID program in South Africa”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Sir Peter Green letter to MT (Brian Sedgemore allegations about Lloyd’s and Janson Green Agency) [rebuttal] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Lawson, Hurd, Havers, Mayhew, Wakeham, Leigh-Pemberton) [decisions on Roskill Report] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Baker memo circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 1 (Local Government Finance Studies: Draft Green Paper) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (Parliamentary Affairs, Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs, Local Government Finance Studies) [Heseltine resigns; confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Cabinet Office) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 1st (extract on Westland affair) [Heseltine resigns] [declassified 2010]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speaking notes (necessity of restoring collective responsibility) [“must restore govt’s standing & observe conclusions of 19th Dec”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Armstrong draft (cabinet conclusion) [“It is the policy of the government that it is for the shareholders of Westland to decide”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Wicks note to MT in cabinet ("A Lobby at 4") [“they have been told not to have one this morning without your permission”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Ingham note to Wicks ('Nigel') [Heseltine said he has resigned and promises statement later, presumably before 12.30] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Michael Heseltine over Westland Helicopters Affair") [12.10pm, including Downing Street statement] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Resignation of Mr Heseltine, Rates, Channel Fixed Link") [17.30pm, reaction to Heseltine press conference at MoD; "resigned on a very narrow point of procedure"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [“the battle on for Maggie’s crown”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 Press Office minute for Tebbit (media demands) [appearances at 1pm and on Question Time] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD telegram to UKE Paris, Bonn, Rome, The Hague (Heseltine announces his resignation to fellow Defence Ministers) ["issues for which we jointly worked are of paramount importance"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (resignation) [drafts as well as final text of letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for Armstrong (MT meeting Amercian correspondents) ["If asked about Westlands" proposes she refers to attached statements] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Ingham minute for MT ("Handling of Heseltine's resignation") [over next few days and weekend media will be trying "to make life difficult for the Government, and yourself especially"; response] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary 1988: HMG Gift") [sail training ship] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 30 to FCO (1651Z) ("CFL: Programme for Prime Minister's Visit to Lille on 20 January: Telecon Timms/Darroch") [Nick Ridley will leave early to make Commons statement] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1500Z) ("Review of US Policy in Central America") (NSC 0128) [declassified Dec 2005]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities letter to MT (“Seminar on Crime Prevention”) [“Local authorities should be full partners in all measures”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Commentary (The Sun) Westland: "Tarzan: My feuds with Maggie" (Heseltine resigns) ["amazing attack on Premier Margaret Thatcher"]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Water Privatisation") ["This draft White Paper is admirably clear and well-written... the one major defect is the section on water-metering..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Richard Luce letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") ["...protecting consumer interests..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to No.10 ("Marine science and technology") [Government response to House of Lord select committee report] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Prime Minister Mugabe letter to MT (Zimbabwe's relations with the ANC and South Africa) [angry response to perceived MT insinuation of Zimbabwean compliance in ANC attacks and "a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in Warsaw to FCO (1985 Annual Report on Poland) [declassified 2007]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 minute for MT (“DHSS Video for Young People on Drug Misuse”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Norgrove minute for MT (“Roskill Report”) [MacGregor or Ken Clarke to head inderdepartmental review of Roskill? MT opts for MacGregor] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan minute for MacGregor (“Fraud”) [thanks for "speedy positiive response" to request for additional resources] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Future of the Top Salaries Review Body”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“1986 Budget Day”) [timing of announcement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Biassed teaching and political indoctrination in schools and colleges”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Grant-aided schools”) [Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howe minute to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [disappointed that Government will not be making claims] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Prime Minister") ["The most damaging effect … has been to show the Government and you looking, uncharacteristically, as though you are not in control"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Sherbourne minute for Powell & others ("Briefing for the Prime Minister after Mr Heseltine's Resignation") ["difficult questions which the PM can expect to get in the House" - list] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Heseltine resignation) [“Tarzan goes to war”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, economy) [“Heseltine’s resignation will dominate the weekend media”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to MT (“Departmental Responsibility for Tribunals”) [Cabinet Office report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT ("Westland: Mr Heseltine's Statement") ["knocking copy … in rather polemical terms"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Tebbit letter to Howe (direct private investment overseas) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Alastair Buchan letter to MT (seminar on crime prevention) [school security initiatives following MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Powell minute for MT (“Meeting of Ministers: 13 January: Westland”) [points for decision - government statement on Monday? how to respond to Cuckney letter on NADS?] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ex-King Constantine's Son") [Howe concerned at prospect of a leak on Prince Paul's starting at Sandhurst] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO telegram 60 to UKE Washington (1300Z) ("Chemical Weapons") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: FCO briefing for MT (UK-Japan 2000 Group post-Second Conference lunch) [summary of Conference discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition: residuary bodies") [Chairmanship of the Merseyside Residuary Body] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Brittan letter to Baker ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [draft "...sets out well the case for privatisation..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Claude Hankes-Drielsma letter to MT (Dr. Fritz Leutwiler meeting with the Prime Minister) ["to convey to you his personal impressions subsequent to his meeting with President Botha and many others in South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“June European Council”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office minute for No.10 (“Police Report on the Tottenham Riot”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Home Office minute for No.10 (“Roskill Report”) [Home Secretary’s revised statement] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Jopling note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 2 (Annual Review of Agriculture 1986) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Howard letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [requests amendment in relation to CAA powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell minute (‘Westland’) [first draft of speech for Wednesday's debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT notes (speech preparation) [six points] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 1A”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 2”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: DTI letter to No.10 (“Westland: Statement”) [draft Brittan Commons statement] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [speculation over how MT will handle Heseltine’s allegations] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“Westlands will unfortunately dominate this week”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MacGregor letter to Younger (NADS recommendations) [important not to restrict ability to seek international competitive tender when purchasing helicopters] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Tebbit, Younger, Havers, Wakeham; Armstrong, Whitmore, Michelle) [Brittan to make HC statement that afternoon] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan draft HC statement (correcting earlier statement) [Sir Austin Pearce letter] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Clarke letter to Hurd (Popplewell Inquiry into safety and control at sports grounds) [recommendation to relax controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 letter to Hurd PS (“Mr. Justice Popplewell’s Final Report”) [MT concerns about proposed response to Inquiry into Safety and Control at Sports Grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: MT message to Bob Hawke ("Australian Bicentenary: British Gift") [commission of ship] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 42 to FCO (1149Z) ("CFL: Treaty Signature") [French suddenly claim President Mitterrand constitutionally impeded from signing treaty, but will still attend ceremony] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [completion of projects will demonstrate government's determination to overcome PIRA campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Younger PS minute to Tebbit PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [providing RUC support without an unacceptable level of strain on armed forces already serving] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Gorbachev letter for MT (international affairs: disarmament) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600) [mooted All Nippon Airways contract falls through; MT presses for reassurances from Japanese Government with regard to other pending contract bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 minute: Addison to Powell (Japanese Finance Minister) [Treasury advice that MT meet with Noboru Takeshita during his weekend in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Research and Development priorities across Government") [MISC 119 report; "It has frankly proved to be a very difficult exercise... the main problem was over defence R&D..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to Brittan ("Legal action against Arthur Andersen and Co (AA)") [Government taking Anderson to court over the firm's role in the collapse of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to FCO ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [Younger fully endorses Howe's proposal to seek a multilateral fisheries regime in the South Atlantic] [declassified 2014]
Text 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: NSC memorandum for Poindexter (need to energise State Department) [declassified 1999]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Tom King minute for Douglas Hurd (“Confiscation of the Profits of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [stores promotion & commercial worth] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury minute to Department of Trade and Industry (“Lloyds and the Financial Services Bill”) [wants early report by enquiry in case need to amend Bill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Ridley note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 3 (Channel Fixed Link) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“I have stressed to BAA the need to keep their settlement as low as possible”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Property Services Agency”) [proposed restructuring, ongoing reduction in management tiers, staff cuts] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (“Mark 2”) [draft of speech for 15 Jan debate, as annotated by MT] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: No.10 briefing (“Prime Minister's Questions, 14 January, 1986”) [line to take & notes for supplementaries] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, Defence, Economy, Industry) [Brittan fighting for his political life] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute to MT (draft reply to Pearce) [Lygo meeting with Brittan, 9 Jan] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Final Popplewell Report”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Tom King letter to Hurd (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit Meeting in Lille on 20 January") [French want lunchtime speeches kept brief, MT agrees attendance of leader of Kent County Council] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Message to the Prime Minister about Disarmament") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Department of the Environment record of conversation ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker, Rifkind, Ancram, Waldegrave] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Illegal Community Budget for 1986: UK Action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker class action settlement: claims by government departments”) [“if Government Departments are not to submit claims… Parliament should be told”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Armstrong note for Wicks (“The Speech”) ["a little unhappy" about draft; make clear that MT said timetable would allow for further meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Ingham note for Powell (‘Charles’) [how to characterise MT speech for lobby briefing at 11] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Wicks minute [for MT] (Whitelaw comment on 15 Jan speech draft; also Armstrong wording) [tone, balance & content right; suggests different wording on meeting that did not take place] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Heseltine versus Brittan] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Biffen (Immigration cases) [draft guidance for handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd letter to Howe (“Visas”) [review following immigration control crisis, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Expo '86: Vancouver") [possible programme options] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKREP The Hague telegram 27 to FCO (1715Z) ("Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam") [arrest of two men who escaped from The Maze] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Turkey: Powell minute to FCO ("Turkish TV Request for Interview with the Prime Minister") [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 115 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [text of President Reagan's statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Gorbachev's Statement on Arms Control") [nuclear weapons and space, renunciation of space weapons, US/Soviet testing moratorium] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to MT (Spain's accession to the European Community) [thanks MT for attending Embassy Reception to mark the occasion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: FCO minute to No.10 (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [travel arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute for MT (“European Community: Intergovernmental Conference”) [work environment requirements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute to MT (“Budget”) [meeting with Lawson] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Public expenditure priorities for the next Parliament”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [teachers’ perspective] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 2nd (cabinet membership, Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland, Channel Fixed Link) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 117 to FCO (1710Z) (“US/Soviet nuclear and arms control negotiations: US approach to Geneva Round IV”) [“There are no significant new elements in the President’s instructions”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Biffen letter to Michael Howard (“Airports Bill”) [amendment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“The Further Extension of Unified Grading in the Civil Service”) [“to remove artificial barriers which can obstruct the selection of the right people for jobs”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland, economy) [coverage of new Heseltine allegations] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 (“Mr. Justice Popplewell’s Final Report”) [football clubs membership cards proposal to address hooliganism] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Whitelaw letter to Hurd (“Popplewell Inquiry in Safety and Control at Sports Grounds”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Vancouver for Expo '86") [travel arrangements: Concorde] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 58 to FCO (1307Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Lille, 20 January") [details of final programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit Meeting in Lille 20 January") [attendees, programme] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Nimrod/AEW") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister") [UKA Giffard record of conversation with Shintaro Abe: Abe's forthcoming visit to UK: USSR; Falklands fishing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr Brittan") [sale of British Leyland - "These discussions need of course now to be seen in the light of the Westland affair..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("MISC 119 Report on Government R&D") [shortcomings of the cross-Department review of R&D; options for addressing the deficiency in industry expenditure on research] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chief Scientific Adviser minute to MT ("Report of MISC 119: Research and Development priorities across Government") ["...the UK seems to be planning for economic decline in science - and technology - based industry" - proposed remedial action; MT keen for advice to be widely circulated but persuaded against it] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling letter to Howe (“Common Agricultural Policy: the 1986 Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Community: First Impressions and Annual Review for 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Rifkind minute for MacGregor (“Public Expenditure: 1985-86 Outturn”) [housing, local authorities overspend] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [outcome of the G5, the markets, tin, oil, personal taxation] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Teachers’ pay”) [proposal for Hurd to join committee] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers (QPM)”) [MT opposes setting a precedent for publishing Cabinet documents] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Lady Tilney (thanks for "marvelous letter") ["We shall be in rough water for some time I fear - and just when the economy is doing so well"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Lady Spencer (thanks for support "at a difficult time") ["People do not expect Conservatives to be quarrelling openly and they have a right to expect Cabinet to be united"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Heseltine walks out of Channel 4 interview] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Office Weekend Highlights for MT (Westland, Channel link, Ulster protest rally) [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (“Popplewell Report: controls on alcohol in executive boxes and restaurants”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Mr Churchill’s Bill on Obscene Publications”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 19 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Expo '86: Vancouver") [MT will attend briefly] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: No.10 briefing ("Administrative Arrangements for the Visit of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to Lille: Monday 20 January 1986") [Channel Tunnel treaty signature - programme, travel arrangements, attendees, including press party] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister") [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Kenneth Baker ("Consultative Council on local government finance: expenditure groups' report") [improvement of existing arrangement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries") [negotiations with the Japanese over fishing for squid at the Falklands] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Nicholas Winterton MP (report on South Africa) [possible military coup] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Derek Tonkin farewell letter from Pretoria) [MT "found it a very interesting and well-written account, if rather depressing in its conclusions"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Whitelaw minute for Douglas Hurd (“Roskill Report: Early Debates”) [Parliamentary arrangements] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Action Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [opposes idea] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [“Brittan’s chance to plunge knife into Heseltine”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“The Week Ahead”) [“The Channel Link and the RSG debate will today take over from Westland”] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to UK Ambassador to France (Channel Fixed Link meeting) [thanks to Embassy staff; "it was right to make this into a major occasion and underline the wider significance of the decision to go ahead with a Link"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (Channel Fixed Link meeting) [grateful he made it a ceremonial occasion to underline the project's symbolic importance, glad to talk about Middle East developments] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram 76 to FCO (1727Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to Lille, 20 January 1986: Channel Fixed Link") ["very warm reception" for MT in Lille, "great media interest"; account of the visit] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT message to Ruud Lubbers (Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam) [thanks for cooperation by Netherlands authorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Afghanistan: FCO PUS letter to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan and Austrian Neutrality") [Austrian Ambassador's concern about comparison drawn by MT in recent TV interview] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Wicks minute for Armstrong (“Long-term Trends and Social Expenditure in the Group of Seven Major Industrial Countries”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with Younger: Nimrod/AEW) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador, Japanese Director-General of European & Oceanic Affairs Bureau) [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement; Falklands fisheries] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [unlikely to catch on in UK, but leveraged takeovers financed by banks may already be] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Chief Secretary to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [interdepartmental committee on Roskill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [ACAS; Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ACAS; government strategy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [ACAS; Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil Service: FCO letter to No.10 (“Property Services Agency”) [concerns over value for money with contractor] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Channel Tunnel, economy, Westland) [rail link announced, but conflict with unions] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: Lord Young PS letter to No.10 (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (0135Z) ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [initial reactions within the US Administration] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod/AEW) [leaks to the press] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Younger) [Nimrod AEW project] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("'H' Committee on Tuesday") [radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chairman/Chief Executive of Land Rover-Leyland Ltd letter to MT (possible sale by BL plc of Land Rover UK Ltd and related businesses) ["My declared interest is in exploring the feasability of a consortium backed management buy-out of Land Rover UK Ltd... deep concerns about certain aspects of the SALTON proposals..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") [revised draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (South Africa) [corrects Mugabe's reading of her previous letter: "[we] accept that you do not allow or encourage ANC bases in Zimbabwe... Nor is there any question of my seeking to threaten Zimbabwe on behalf of South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Barber) [Nigerians insisting on meeting with Mandala as condition of joining visit to South Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (FCO) Cold War: UK Embassy in East Berlin to FCO (1985 Annual Report on GDR) [declassified 2007]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to Biffen (“Illegal Community Budget for 1986: Next Action”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [Inquiry, ACAS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rifkind minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [Inquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay and duties”) [government’s options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Teachers’ pay dispute”) [ACAS; government’s options] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Washington telegram 153 to FCO (0135Z) (“Gorbachev proposals on arms control”) [“Initial reactions within the administration differ widely”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Michael Spicer letter to Michael Howard (Airports Bill) [proposed amendments: “I am not attracted to your ideas”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John MacGregor minute to Nick Ridley (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“content… with the proposal that departments should not submit claims”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: MT letter to Rupert Murdoch (thanks for flowers) [his recent visit to Chequers] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Brian Griffiths letter to MT (support) [“The country is prepared to follow you, support you and re-elect you”; MT: "It is a fight all the time"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Stephen Sherbourne minute (YC invitation to Heseltine) [urges YCs be told to rescind invitation; MT: “I think it would be risky to do so”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Brittan’s position in danger] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“H Committee on Tuesday”) [the Churchill Bill; radioactive waste] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("RPR/UDF election platform: contents") ["A key document, on which the right-wing government likely to emerge from the elections next March will initially base its policies"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Jopling letter to Howe ("Falklands Islands: Fisheries") [a multilateral fisheries regime in the South Atlantic] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“1986 Agricultural Price Proposals”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“European Community: Inter-Governmental Conference”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Department of Trade and Industry minute to Treasury (“Lloyd’s and the Financial Services Bill”) [even if legislation needed, Tebbit opposes its inclusion in Financial Services Bill] [released 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 3rd (Westland, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Economic Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT speech draft (23 Jan Commons statement) [early draft?] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (support) ["while there is understandable silence on the part of the Embassy, we are enthusiastically cheering for you on the sidelines"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Cuckney says Brittan took neutral position on offers] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Interest Rates and Your Meeting with Brian Griffiths and Alan Walters”) [Lawson might be persuded to delay 1.5 percent rise] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: Havers PS minute to Charles Powell ("Australian Bicentenary: Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act") [impact of permanently gifting original] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Paris to FCO ("Bilateral Talks on Nuclear Matters") [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Gorbachev Proposals on Arms Control") [detailed assessment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Internal French politics") ["The [election] campaign is slowly warming up."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Green Paper: Paying for Local Government") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Rates Green Paper") [Baker draft statement to Parliament: "...shows you have been absolutely right to select him and William Waldegrave as the reform team..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Moore letter to Patten ("Water Privatisation: draft White Paper") [revisions to draft] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (the future of South Africa & the necessary conditions for dialogue) [opening address to Parliament; legislative change; sanctions; suspension of violence as a condition of power-sharing; Angola; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Ken Clarke letter to John MacGregor (“BAA pay”) [“danger that we may be becoming too complacent about our alleged success in reducing public sector trading settlements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: John Moore letter to Nick Ridley (“Airports Bill”) [defence against separate privatisation of Stansted] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ASPIRE”) [clearance to support spinal injury research appeal for funds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Property Services Agency Advisory Board”) [winding up: “There is no doubt that the PSA has benefitted from exposure to private sector expertise…”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Letwin minute to Powell ("Policy Unit Draft 2") [MT speech 27 Jan] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Emergency Debate: 27 January 1986") ["Launch a counter-attack"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Westland) [Brittan’s future in doubt, many backbenchers want him gone] [released 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (market pressure to increase interest rates) ["I have emphasised to the Treasury how very relieved you would be if there were no increase today"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to MT (“The Budget of March 1986”) [case for a tight budget, as in 1981] [declassified 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT draft speech (25 Jan draft) [extensive MT amendments] [released Jan 2017]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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