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90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell (Deputy Foreign Minister of Tunis visit to London) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Iraq and Kuwait Sanctions: Insurance") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Powell briefing for MT ("Talk with President Bush") [tell him parliamentary debate shows solid bipartisan support; more British troops to be sent] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MODUK telegram to Army Intelligence units (Operation Granby: political situation, intelligence, military operations) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [MT increasingly certain Saddam would not leave Kuwait "unless thrown out"; Hurd "more inclined to see a chance that sanctions would succeed"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Lobby Briefing for MT (Gulf Crisis, Michael Forsyth) [Iraq's invasion of Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Lobby Briefing for MT (Gulf Crisis, Mr Hashimoto, Michael Forsyth) [Cabinet meeting, Kinnock speech] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Economy, Politics) [Hussein calls for Holy War against US] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Charge Capping and Lambeth Borough Council") [challenge over the level of charge after capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Duncan Bray (new system) [fairer and more accountable method of charging for local services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: White House record of phone conversation (President Bush-Mitterrand) [pre-Helsinki update; Gorbachev "very cautious about any movement towards open warfare, but he emphasized the need to maintain a common front"] [declassified Aug 2009]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell ("EMU: The Present Negotiating Position and Future Tactics") [Butler again urging MT to accept aim of a single currency ONE DAY; MT agrees to see him again, but sees "no point in doing so"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ECOFIN: UK Reserve on Monetary Committee Report") [Italians may ask UK to lift its reserves on Monetary Committee Report] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("ERM: Question and Answer Briefing") [current text] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: David Mellor minute to Norman Lamont ("Public Expenditure Survey: Office of Arts and Libraries") [bid for a one-off cash injection] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: John Maples letter to Peter Lilley ("Iraq and Kuwait sanctions: insurance") ["prohibit[ion of] payments into blocked Iraqi and Kuwaiti accounts" ] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to President of Nauru (developments in the Middle East) [reply] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10: Policy Unit letter to Potter (oil prices) [John Wybrew note: "Talk of an impending oil crisis is ill-founded unless war breaks out"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell note to MT (update) [overnight telegrams; "Excellent press coverage of your speech"; Bush to call at 12.30; 300 women & children flown out last night; UN Sec Gen meeting with Tariq Aziz; sanctions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("Prime Minister's meeting with King Hussein") ["excerpt dealing with the revocation of export licenses for the export of arms to Jordan"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Peter Lilley letter to Hurd (telecommunications lines with Iraq & Kuwait) ["should be maintained"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Gulf crisis: US burden-sharing initiative") ["what... [MT] might say about a UK contribution to assistance for Egypt, Turkey and Jordan when she telephones the President"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq-Kuwait: counter-propaganda") [objectives and methodology] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq-Kuwait emergency: use of 0898 system") ["The signs are that the public has accepted that no profit will be retained by the FCO, and that the system was introduced because there was no other way of meeting public demand"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2179 to FCO (2250Z) ("Gulf crisis: US/Israeli contacts") ["Israelis assure Administration that they will maintain low profile, but seek increased US assistance on intelligence and arms supplies"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Extraordinary EPC Ministerial meeting, Rome, 7 Sept") ["centred on the question of financial support for Turkey, Jordan and Egypt"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: high-level US briefing of North Atlantic Council") ["emphasises the need for NATO solidarity, equitable burden-sharing and readiness for a long haul"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Moscow record of conversation ("Iraq/Kuwait: call on Belonogov") [UK amabssador to the USSR, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Other Embassies") [staff departures & staff remaining] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Mitterrand press conference") ["French will only engage military on the context of a UN mandate"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS Geneva telegram 622 to FCO (1004Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: ICRC") ["Iraq refuses ICRC access to Kuwait and to foreign nationals in Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1195 to FCO (0220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Secretary General's meeting with Tariq Aziz") ["he had hoped to be able to start a diplomatic process leading to the beginning of the implementation of SCR 660. This had not come to fruition"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2165 to FCO (0046Z) ("Bush/Gorbachev meeting: Helsinki, 9 September: CFE") ["hardened attitudes here... firm US line expected. But Scowcroft downbeat on prospects for progress"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2164 to FCO (0044Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Bush/Gorbachev summit") ["focus will be on the Gulf, and on possible differences... on the use of force; "Agenda will also include other regional issues, Europe and the Soviet economy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2162 to FCO (0040Z) ("Israeli Foreign Minister's visit to Washington") [Gulf crisis; Arab/Israeli conflict] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Lobby Briefing for MT (Mr Forsyth, Gulf) [deployment of troops] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Economy, EC) [differences between MT and Kinnock on Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("State Visit by President Cossiga" - arrangements) [MT "likes small meetings", "she knows President Cossiga well, and regards him as a close friend"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [should be simpler and more understandable] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Scotland: MT to Lord Sanderson (Chairman of Scottish Party) ["I will never forget that we are the Conservative and Unionist Party"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Belstead PS ("Broadcasting Bill: Quality Threshold") [reversal of amendments] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Aspen Speech: Letter from the Polish Ambassador") [MT's draft reply] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Waldegrave PS letter to No.10 ("Humanitarian assistance of refugees from Iraq") ["[MT] takes the view that it is for the... [UN] itself to head a fund-raising drive... she has reservations about the constant recourse to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for finance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf crisis") [US/Soviet meeting in Helsinki; air blockade; additional UK forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1207 to FCO (0355Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") ["A very helpful development"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1212 to FCO (0315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: non-aligned meeting") ["the aim was to concert positions with a view to a possible non-aligned initiative"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1208 to FCO (0225Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") ["text of the draft statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2183 to FCO (0010Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["The mood is not bellicose. The President has support because he has been seen to be firm yet measured, and to have secured unprecedented international backing"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Format of the Community Charge Bill") [options for format] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 8 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Hayek MSS)	Conservatism: Hayek appointment of Ralph Harris as literary executor (Hayek's papers to be archived at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford, California)
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute to MT ("Helsinki summit") ["skirted round the question of possible use of force: and it was fairly clear that Gorbachev was not ready to subscribe to this"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("Iraq") [Charles Powell, Professor Bernard Lewis: advice on the Gulf crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia letter to MT (protective equipment against chemical weapons for the Saudi armed forces) ["I greatly appreciate the directive which was issued to British Aerospace plc to secure this equipment urgently"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Saudi financing of US military effort") ["will amount to relatively little"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Cabinet Office minute to Treasury ("1991 London Economic Summit") [funding for the Summit] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: White House record of conversation (President Bush-Gorbachev) [Helsinki tête-à-tête; Bush: "the closer the new world order, the closer the US-Soviet relationship, the closer to a solution of the Gulf crisis"] [declassified Aug 2009]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: White House record of conversation (President Bush-Gorbachev and others) [Helsinki plenary; negotiating joint statement] [declassified Aug 2009]
90 Sep 9 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Powell minute for MT (rception at ECOFIN of UK hard ecu proposal) [misleading press reports, but "considerable interest" in UK ideas; "We are very much still in the game, but well short of having converted the EC to our way of thinking"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Treasury letter to Cabinet Office ("AHGG: financial sanctions") ["payments from blocked accounts to Iraqi students in the UK... [and] instructions from Iraq to amend letters of credit"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("The Gulf: Saudi reactions to Bush/Gorbachev summit") ["Prince Bandar... very alarmed at the constant harping on a peaceful solution"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Patrick Mayhew letter to Hurd ("Gulf crisis: request from the Amir") ["the request... does not embrace the use of force beyond that necessary to enforce economic sanctions... a further request would be needed"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for further UK reinforcements to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Embassy of Israel press release ("Reply by the Ambassador of Israel to questions asked regarding Minister of State FCO Mr W Waldegrave's remarks concerning Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict during the House of Commons special session on the Kuwait crisis (6-7 September 1990)") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: President Ershad letter to MT (International Organisation for Migration: aid for Bangladesh) [letter of thanks for UK contribution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: President of the Tunisian Republic letter to MT (Gulf crisis) [appointment of a Special Envoy to UK and proposals for a settlement of the crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO ("North Atlantic Council Ministerial meeting, 10 September: Gulf crisis: Bush-Gorbachev summit") ["Baker stressed need for NATO to meet out of area threat"; sanctions; burden-sharing] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: King Hussein's visit to Baghdad: 5/6 September") ["likely to continue with his diplomatic efforts to promote a solution... had spoken very frankly to Saddam... there was no choice... if it came to a war, Iraq would be defeated"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Doha telegram to FCO (Prime Minister's speech in the House of Commons Debate) [Emir of Qatar offers congratulations and support] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Visit of Secretary Baker") ["Saudis insist that assistance already being given by them equals, and possibly exceeds, that requested by Baker"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd minute to MT ("Gulf: future force levels") ["If Saddam Hussein is to be persuaded to withdraw, we have to keep building up the pressure... We are likely to come under pressure on costs"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to Michael Portillo (New Burdens on Local Government) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Law and order) [clear message to Hussein to get out of Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report for 1989-90") [should minimise the numbre of changes] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French Press Reaction to ECOFIN") ["certain sourness at what is seen as growing support for the cautious British approach"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN, Rome 8 September: Italian Press Comment") [outcome seen as substantial setback for those seeking rapid implementation of Delors plan] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Informal ECOFIN") [UK proposals for stage 2 welcomed; disagreements on the pace of transition to single currency] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to David Mellor ("1990 Public Expenditure: Arts and Libraries") [proposals are unrealistic and unacceptable] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("PES: Arts and Libraries") [does MT want to get involved in dispute between Lamont and Mellor] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to Waddington PS ("Satellite Television") [providers of satellite television competition with cable licensees] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT letter to Polish Ambassador (her Aspen speech: the future of Europe) [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell note for MT ("Gulf crisis") [overnight telegrams, especially Baker's debriefing of NATO on Helsinki Summit; "Our European allies do not come out too well"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Robert Hayward MP (meeting with the Prime Minister) [scheduling] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf: meeting with Ministers") [Helsinki summit; sanctions; Emir of Kuwait; aid; additional forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Force deployment to the Gulf") [Air Vice Marshal Wilson, General Schwarzkopf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Peter Lilley PS letter to No.10 (Turkish barriers to EC textile exports) [Lilley looking for 'quid pro quo' deal with Turkey] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: King PS letter to No.10 (temporary deployment of Royal Navy patrol craft to Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs)) ["in the light of the increased terrorist theat to the SBAs from pro-Iraqi/Libyan terrorist groups"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for ground force reinforcements to Saudi Arabia") ["if we are just thinking about the political impact... there is no doubt that tanks play very well. But if it came to a conflict and the Challenger did not perform, the down-side risk would be very much greater than with artillery"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Yemen/Saudi Border") [Prince Bandar request for papers] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Resupply of our Kuwait Embassy") [use of Special Operations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with Baker: Gulf") [Hurd, US Secretary of State] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1228 to FCO (2105Z) ("Humanitarian assistance to refugees") [UK Ambassador to the UN, UN Secretary General] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 628 to FCO (1026Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: International Organisation for Migration") ["IOM pleased by response so far to their appeal for funds to transport evacuees"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1222 to FCO (0330Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council action") ["Americans... for a further Security Resolution... tightening the screw against Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting with Signor Andreotti") ["in case of necessity" asks MT to give him lunch at Chequers on 20 Oct; she agrees] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [release of key economic data; ECOFIN discussion on single currency; possible ERM entry dates] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Informal ECOFIN") [German press highlights differences over timing of stage two and favours cautious approach] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Griffiths briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor: ERM") [comments by press and analysts support her position of delaying entry] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Possible Dates for ERM Membership") [reviews dates between Oct and end of year] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [release of key economic data; ECOFIN; possible ERM entry dates (Major will press for 5 Oct)] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Turkish Satellite Communication System") [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: Charles Powell to Ronnie Millar (speech to Czech Federal Assembly) [please amend & embellish]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Chairman of HM Customs & Excise letter to Peter Lilley ("Iraq/Kuwait sanctions: enforcement and co-ordination") ["critical that we should receive the earliest possible intelligence and be consulted quickly"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis: Morocco") ["account of the meeting [of] Maghreb Foreign Ministers on 2 September": search for a peaceful solution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("Gulf crisis: Israel") [Charles Powell, Benjamin Netanyahu] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Additional British forces for the Gulf") [meeting to discuss MT concerns about reliability of Challenger tank] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: Tunisian proposals") ["an "Arab solution"... unacceptable in many respects"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Meetings on the Gulf") [MT asked to approve less frequent meetings of Cabinet Office Group "Now that we may be entering the long haul"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2218 to FCO (2237Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["[US] sceptical about an Iran/Iraq oil deal, and inclined to play down the Khameini statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2217 to FCO (2235Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Cheney and Powell before the Senate Armed Services committee") ["No surprises, and little hard information. Clear Senatorial sense of grievance against Japan/Germany... Burdensharing was a key element"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: discussion at Foreign Ministers' Dinner") ["Dumas and Shevardnadze think sanctions will have their effect... in two months... [Hurd], Baker and Genscher less sanguine"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman record of conversation ("Message from the Prime Minister") [UK Ambassador, King Hussein: "The King has made no secret... of his opposition to foreign intervention"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (0545Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: President's address to Congress") ["A confident and determined address... determination to do whatever may be necessary to reverse Iraq's invasion of Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Countryside) [Bush tells Congress that Hussein will fall] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [MT concern over invisibles and the RPI; ECOFIN; possible dates for ERM entry] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (Treasury paper on hard ecu) [Chancellor has made it available to Parliamentary Select Committees and other interested parties] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: Turkish President Ozal letter for MT (commercial investigation of Polly Peck International in the UK) [Greek Cypriot campaign against the company] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Turkish Ambassador) [Polly Peck International] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: No.10 record of conversation (Powell, Turkish Ambassador) [Ozal would like brief meeting with MT in London on 23 September or New York the following week] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis") [cover letter for Bush message to MT (retained) following his meeting with Gorbachev at Helsinki Summit to discuss Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of the General Staff, & others) ["Additional British forces for the Gulf": MT reservations about efficacy of Challenger 1 tank] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gulf crisis: Ministerial meeting") [additional British forces; advice to British citizens in Kuwait; assistance for families of hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("OD meeting: the Gulf") [additional British forces; military and financial aid burden-sharing; effect of sanctions on British companies] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2231 to FCO (2240Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the US domestic dimension") ["public support... has solidified... [but] a growing mood in Congress that all the Allies should be doing more"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Baker's call on Gorbachev, 13 September") [UN resolution on air routes embargo; sanctions for violation of existing resolutions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Saudi assistance to states affected by embargo and to costs of US forces") ["greater degree of Saudi munificence... than had been assumed when Baker made his pitch here"; UK looking to US to set precedent for ironing out bureaucracy problems with Saudi funding of fuel, water and in-country transport costs for military forces] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1250 to FCO (0315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [text of draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1249 to FCO (0310Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1244 to FCO (0125Z) ("Appointment of relief Co-ordinator") ["Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Sadruddin Aga Khan as his personal representative for humanitarian assistance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf Comment, Economy, Industry) [Ayatollah calls for holy war against Americans] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Clarke PS minute to Barry Potter ("Clinical Research Centre") [interim report on proposals for closure] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Major PS minute toNo.10 ("Q2 Balance of Payments") [revision to figures - press commentary] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2234 to FCO (0053Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: legal basis for further military operations") [US "dismayed that we had gone ahead with the Kuwaitis on our own"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2232 to FCO (0001Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["may be based on a misunderstanding of US ideas for regional security arrangements... [but] Khameini's words could be taken... as the green light to carry out terrorist attacks against US forces"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 14 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Economy, Lamb War) [US says it will not be ready for war for two months] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 15 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2244 to FCO (1545Z) ("Visit of the Secretary of State for Defence: Iraq/Kuwait") ["US policies to come under review in November. Present stress on the longer haul"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 16 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [public expenditure negotiations; Mansion House speech] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Cecil Parkinson minute to Michael Portillo ("Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report 1989/90") [concerns about local authorities who lost out in the way debt has been handled] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Barry Potter minute to Clarke PS ("Northwick Park: Clinical Research Centre") [proposed closure and transfer of work] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Renton PS minute to Waddington PS ("Broadcasting Bill: Quality Threshold") [handling of government defeats in Lords] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: DTI minute to No.10 ("Polly Peck International PLC") [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 17 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Ankara Metro Project") [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [need to distinguish between burdens arising from new activities and those from transfer of responsibilities to local government] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Michael Portillo ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [should be clear and simple] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury minute ("Poehl's press conference: 19 September") [Pohl saying hard ecu rejected by ECOFIN; "Statement by the Deutsche Bundesbank on the establishment of an Economic and Monetary Union in Europe"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 19 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Satellite Television") [regulation of Satellite Master Antenna Television systems] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 21 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Shares Spending Distribution Between Service Shares") [officials' suggestions] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 21 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (agreed text of Chancellor's public statement on ERM entry) ["not seeking delay, just awaiting the right circumstances"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 22 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Powell minute for Turnbull (Chancellor's statement on ERM entry) [MT "pretty indignant" with 'panic' statement and with Governor's reaction] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [costing the effect of policies affecting local authorities' spending] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Michael Portillo minute to Michael Howard (HSC work) [replacing health and safety regulations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Michael Howard minute to John Major ("Local Authority Pay") [central government involvement in pay negotiations] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome Special European Council) [need also to discuss the Gulf] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor, French Minister of Finance) [EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 24 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Peter Lilley minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [difficulties new totals will cause for DTI] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Economy/Politics) [Mitterrand calls on Hussein to leave Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [courts have upheld council's interpretation of the law] [released Dec 2016]
90 Sep 25 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Barry Potter ("BBC Licence Fee") [independent study of fee increases and inflation] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Foreign, Environment) [UN security council tightens screw] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 26 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler letter to Powell ("ERM") ["there is a risk that we shall be manoeuvred into a very weak position"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Sep 26 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to Waddington PS ("BBC Licence Fee") [MT says if inflation is to be brought down, BBC needs to absorb increase in costs through greater efficiency] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("Questions for Mr Bush") [coming talk with President - US response to incidents, preparations for full-scale hostilities, transition to major hostilities, Israel, end game, long-term security, Iraq nuclear capacity] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT (Meeting with the Soviet Ambassador) [the political and economic situation in the Soviet Union; Anglo-Soviet relations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Standard Spending Distribution Between Services") [share for education services] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Economy, Politics) [Jordan bans Iraqi flights] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: DTI") [allocation of bottom line settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 27 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Waddington PS minute to Andrew Turnbull ("BBC Licence Fee") [independent study of fee increases and inflation] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS)") [technical aspects of the settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child tax allowances and child benefit") [covering minute for attached Policy Unit note on "merits of different approaches to child support... [and] the action to be taken in the short term"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Iran/Gulf comment) [real progress in conventional forces arms control talks] [released Feb 2020]
90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [ask Treasury how much more they think they will have to concede] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 28 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Germany: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit to the UK by President von Weizsacker: 14 November 1990") [Coventry cathedral commemoration arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 30 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, President Bush, General Scowcroft, Charles Powell; James Baker in part) ["The Gulf Crisis: the Military Option"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Policy Planning Staff brief ("A Theme for the London Summit") ["hot" political issues include Gulf crisis aftermath, NATO, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Standard Spending Assessments for 1991-92") [endorses Patten's proposals for changes in the assessments] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Local Authority Expenditure: Distribution of Total Standard Spending (TSS) and Standard Spending Assessment (SSA)") [options for distribution] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("The Non-Domestic Rate Poundage for 1991-92") [indexation of the multiplier] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Peter Lilley minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Post Office and ECGD") [external finance limit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to PS (BBC Opinion programme) [how to maintain impartiality and imbalance] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Current: 1991-92 Total Standard Spending Distribution and Standard Spending Assessments") [composition of SSAs] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991/92") [impact on school budgets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Scotland: Peter Morrison minute for MT ("Lord Sanderson and Scotland") [Sanderson beginning to settle into the job as chairman] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to David Hunt ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Wales") [NHS cross border flows] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 2 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey (PES)") [Lamont will do very well to get near his ambitious target] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	G7: Charles Powell minute to Nigel Wicks ("London Economic Summit") [Mulroney's confusion over Summit dates] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour Party conference) [IRA murder gang, German unification] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge: Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School-Leavers") [address issue with short bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Major) [inflation, interest rates and joining ERM; Major proposed MT announce entry in her conference speech on 12 Oct] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Chancellor") [options to join and reduce interest rates next weekend] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 3 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Major-Lamont-Griffiths-Butler) [bids had been even higher than last year] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (East-West/Defence, Labour Party) [UK seeking new UN resolution to sanction military action against Iraq if hostages harmed] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	NHS: Clarke PS minute to Dominic Morris (new doctors' contract) [article in Doctor] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute for MT ("Exchange Rate Mechanism") [possible announcement in MT's Conference Speech: options/permutations] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, John Major; Middleton, Burns, Wicks, George) [ERM entry; decision to announce interest rate cut at same time and to join tomorrow, 5 Oct; present rate of DM2.93 "very close to what we would like the central rate to be"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Chancellor's PS minute to Middleton ("Contact List for Friday, 5 October") [who to notify about UK ERM entry, and when] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Governor of the Bank of England letter for MT (UK entry into ERM) [will be seen as "a strong policy signal ... good chance of an outstanding result and success for the Government"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 4 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont (TSS for 1991-92) [proposals for service split] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Labour Party, Politics) [Israel-Palestine peace chances] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor and Prime Minister's Statements") [revised draft of Chancellor's 4pm statement on UK entry to ERM and 1 percent reduction in interest rates; suggested form of words for MT] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 (ERM entry) [Q&A briefing to accompany Chancellor's statement] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: MT minute to Norman Lamont ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [establishment of Star Chamber] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Broadcasting: Impartiality") [extending impartiality provisions to BBC] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Bernard Ingham minute to Charles Powell ("Broadcasting - Impartiality") ["We are in danger of endless litigation"] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 5 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2441 to FCO (2350Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") ["Gorbachev still the Americans' preferred partner. But his obvious and serious problems are beginning to cloud the picture"] [released Dec 2017]
90 Oct 6 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Today's Press") [ERM entry "clearly a coup and on the whole it has gone down very well indeed"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 6 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Meeting of the European Monetary Committee") [text of communique agreeing sterling should enter ERM at central rate of DM2.95 with 6 percent margins; "a significant advance in economic and monetary integration"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Press") ["as good as can be expected" on ERM] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 7 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO telegram to Major ("UK Entry to the ERM") [Hurd conversation with Delors on latter's problems with the announcement; CDP: "It's none of his business"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Financial Assets") [proposal to legislate to require authorities to use reserved receipts to repay debt] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("UK Entry to the ERM: German Reactions") [general welcome; some expect it to strengthen German resistance to rapid EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO ("ECOFIN Council: 8 October: EMU") [general congratulations on UK entry to ERM, save from Carli] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 letter to Lord President's PS ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [asks advice on letter from Neil Kinnock demanding debate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 8 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: ECGD; IFR 1990; Post Office") [need to ensure Post Office accept spending discipline] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Abu Dhabi telegram to FCO ("Iraqi reprisals") [reliable source says 20 Kuwaiti men detained at Saudi border and shot in reprisal for bombing of Kuwait International Hotel] [unclassified; released* Jul 2017]*
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: Sanctions") [frank exchange with Crown Prince Hassan on sanction breaches and Jordanian policy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Effects of Sanctions - Industrial Decline") ["serious problems expected ... supply of raw materials, spare parts and foreign expertise"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to President Khan of Pakistan (Pakistan's stance) ["Pakistan's firm stance and its commitment of troops ... have been of great value"; economic assistance] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: General Scowcroft letter to Charles Powell (Mitterrand) [MT & Bush in New York "shared acute concern about the lack of unequivocal French support"; message conveyed to Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage 1991-92") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Opposition Request for Debate on ERM") [Lord President, Chancellor and Chief Whip all think government should grant it] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Privy Council Office letter to No.10 ("Debate on Sterling's Entry into the ERM") [Lord President and Chief Whip urge she grant it; Chancellor thinks to refuse would cloud favourable publicity won by entry] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 9 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Arrangements for Star Chamber") [timetable, members] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Ambassador US letter to Charles Powell ("The Gulf: contacts with the White House") [asks how UKE Washington can best help MT keep "fully abreast of White House thinking"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf: ROE") [are you content with 'dormant' Rules of Engagement "for use if a limited conflict develops in the Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Policy Planning Staff, Shevardnadze adviser Sergey Tarasenko) ["particularly outspoken on the Gulf ... Saddam Hussein must not come out of the crisis a hero, like Nasser"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Jordan and the Gulf Crisis") [memo from King Hussein' acknowledgment suggested] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT ("Visit to the Gulf: 29 September - 2 October") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rate Poundage") [case for full indexation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT (further Kinnock letter demanding MT open debate on ERM entry) ["letting off steam rather than a serious appeal"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: MT lette to Neil Kinnock (debate on ERM entry) [Chancellor will open for the government since he made the announcement] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Wakeham PS (Star Chamber) [membership] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD minute to Lord President's Office ("MPs' Visits to the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Turnbull minute for MT (Heath's meeting with Saddam Hussein) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Signor Andreotti's talks with the Prime Minister") [refuses permission for Italian press officer to attend Chequers talks] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Policy Unit (RPI) [suggests putting this point to MT later] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 11 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Brooke PS minute to Barry Potter (Star Chamber) [prepared to be a member] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2480 to FCO (2255Z) ("Visit of the Secretary of State for Defence, 15 October: Iraq/Kuwait") ["Despite their frustrations the Americans seem bound to try to make sanctions work at least for the next several weeks, until their build up is complete"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (0000Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 2000 11 Oct] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2015Z) ("Revised draft") [draft of SCR672, 1615 12 Oct, plus draft statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Cairo telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with President Mubarak") [anecdotal account of invasion; King Hussein "cat's paw" to Saddam; in event of military action "the Iraqis will run away"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversations (MT, President Bush; No.10, UKMIS New York; Charles Powell-Scowcroft) ["Security Council resolution: killings in Jerusalem"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heath) [Iraqis not saying Heath visit at weekend not convenient, asking him "to postpone it for a while"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [action at UN, sanctions, hostages/Heath, Embassies in Kuwait, Diplomacy, US policy, military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Curwen minute for Powell ("Reactions to Gulf Postings") [letter from the Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with President De Klerk") [negotiations with ANC hindered by violence with Inkhatha, inability of ANC to make up its mind and "Mandela's constant peregrinations around the world"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to Norman Lamont ("New Burdens on Local Government") [implications of government policy for local authority spending] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("European Council, 27/28 Oct: Italian presidency plans") [Jay official talks in Rome - IGCs a focus, Italians had hoped to secure a 'mandate' for both, now saying unlikely] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 12 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Public Expenditure Survey") [premature to set up Star Chamber at this stage] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 13 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1623 to FCO (0700Z) ("Occupied Territories: Security Council debate") [adoption of SCR672 - MT: "A VERY good night's work"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 13 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Gulf Crisis: audience with King Hussein") [King summoned UK and US Ambassdors, affirmed commitment to sanctions; Tariq Aziz to visit later today] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Visit of Tariq Aziz to Amman: 13 October") [briefing from King Hussein, no sign of shift in Iraqi position] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to Ministry of Defence ("Gulf: ROE") [MT satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	South Africa: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT-De Klerk at Chequers) [De Klerk worried Mandela losing grip on the ANC; annex records MT would love to visit South Africa, but only when there had been "substantial progress in negotiations"] [declassified Dcr 2018]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 14 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham briefing for MT ("The Sunday Newspapers") [party conference "judged to have been low key, defensive, nervy, uninspired and divided over Europe"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2487 to FCO (1600Z) ("conveying messages to Saddam Hussein") ["US agreement with our diagnosis. Effect of sanctions so far limited. Several channels to Saddam Hussein. Primakov achieved little"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1635 to FCO (1425Z) ("Occupied Territories") [US Ambassador trying to persuade Israel to be more cooperative to Aime Mission] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: discussion with Saudi Defence Minister") ["enlightening discussion of how he sees next steps"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, US Defense Secretary Cheney, Tom King) [military situation in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to King Hussein (his memorandum on the crisis) [important "to stay in close touch on this issue", "I think that we both have a clear understanding of each other's views"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: positive information campaign") [seventh weekly sitrep; extensive briefing notes] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Wakeham minute for MT (Iraq/Kuwait: Iraqi threat to Saudi Arabian oil installations) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [covering minute for draft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Economy/Pay) [Hurd and Heath row over whose idea it was Heath should go to Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter (Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers) ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Chancellor's Statement on ERM") [text for delivery] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey: Defence") [practicable and politically desirable to make further reductions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 15 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Update on PES Negotiations") [progress with Home Office, education, employment] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2497 to FCO (0046Z) ("Occupied Territories") [message for Hurd - Baker message to Levy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1645 to FCO (0122Z) ("Occupied Territories") [inconclusive meeting between Secretary-General and Israel Ambassador to UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Jordan: UN Sanctions") ["Crown Prince replies helpfully, if somewhat testily, to your message about sanctions enforcement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's visit to Israel: Plenary Session: Gulf crisis") [Israeli concern that Arab support for Saddam will grow in any "long haul scenario"; containing Saddam if he survives; Jordan worries] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for MT ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics for his visit; "The signs are still of lack of clarity and determination"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("The Gulf") [Cradock visit to Washington - limitation on topics he can safely raise because he has not been briefed on highest level American thinking] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Embargo Surveillance Unit") [essential but not glamorous work, could she see them as a "nice gesture"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf Business Note") ["rather elaborate" note from Robin Butler, lising papers on crisis to prepare and put to cabinet committee OD(G); MT unhappy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("Gulf: ROE") [Foreign Secretary satisfied] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Butler minute for Powell ("Gulf Business Note") [summarises work in preparation and agenda for OD(G) for following month; MT critical, worried over leaks] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [publication of proposals for grant settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Tony Newton minute to MT ("Social Security benefits: 1991/92 uprating") [advance notice of main features of forthcoming statement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: MT letter to Sir Ronald Millar (Conservative Party Conference 1990, Eastbourne) [thank you letters to speechwriters; "I Do, Ron Ron"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Gorbachev, Economy) [Hurd gets frosty reception in Israel] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [doing nothing is not an option] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to MT ("Non-Domestic Rating") [case for indexation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018]
90 Oct 16 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS)	MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (conference speech thanks) [“speech-writing process seemed to be easier than in some previous years”]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2510 to FCO (2109Z) ("UNSG's mission to Jerusalem") [US policy towards Israel and PLO] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2105Z) (French draft SCR on Iraq/Kuwait) [early draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1655 to FCO (0415Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait") [message for Secretary of State in Jerusalem - continuing UK-US differences over scope of next steps SCR] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1656 to FCO (0430Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: comment") ['infuriating' that USMIS at UN was undercut by "yet another premature Baker press statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UK Consulate Jerusalem telegram to FCO ("Message from Baker to Secretary of State") [wants a "clean humanitatian resolution" without reparations to address plight of foreign nationals; MT annotates strong disagreement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Primakov's Visit to Rome, 16 October") ["Soviets reportedly link Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait to a UN initiative on the Occupied Territories"; Andreotti preference for a negotiated settlement] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Cradock ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [topics he can safely raise, excluding military options, timing and strategy] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") ["this agenda would raise problems for me" - need to be able to "cover the issue in broad terms" to encourage US to think through options more clearly] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Telephone conversation with President Bush") [Scowcroft says President will want to call tomorrow or Friday evening; draft message for MT to send Bush first] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for Robin Butler ("Gulf Business Note") [MT reaction - distinguish issues which can go to OD(G) and some that need "to be handled on an even more restricted basis"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Hurd, Primakov, Heath, Bush, UN, Kuwait Embassies), military, future work] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (King Hussein comment) [Saddam seized whole of Kuwait as bargaining chip for disputed territory] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Conversation with President Bush") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO telegram to UKE Moscow ("Primakov's Tour: Meeting with the Secretary of State") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Soviet Union, South Africa) [MT and Bush warn Hussein of war crimes charges] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("President Cossiga") ["A high and controversial profile in recent months after five quiet years"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Potter minute to Professor Griffiths ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap in government's capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge Exemption for 18 and 19 Year Old School Leavers") ["student gap" problem] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary") [Poehl said British hard ecu proposals too late to influence debate, too soon to broker agreement in IGC] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 17 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU: Visit by Financial Secretary to Bonn, 15 October") [Maude addresses German equivalent of CBI] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2520 to FCO (2220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Primakov's Tour") ["Administration will take a tough line on the compromise solution which they expect Primakov to bring to Washington"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1664 to FCO (0030Z) ("Jerusalem: Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [text agreed in five, aim to have resolution passed end of week, "but final US go-ahead still awaited"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1665 to FCO (0035Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [discussion in five on Soviet proposal for Military Staff Committee meeting, US without instructions, other four in favour] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1667 to FCO (1315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["US modus operandi in New York is certainly not designed to get the best results"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (2010Z) ("US/UK New York text of 16/10") [draft of SCR674] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's call on Israeli Defence Minister") ["cordial and detailed exchange" - Occupied Territories; UNSG's mission; Jordan; Iraqi military capabilities] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Athens telegram to FCO ("Secretary of State's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister") ["Good atmosphere but predictable differences"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Baker) ["Gulf Crisis: next steps at the UN"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Cradock minute for Charles Powell ("The Gulf: Visit to Washington") [as agreed, draft message for Powell to send Scowcroft] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT, President Bush) [Bush "agreed that the key calculation was whether we had the luxury of giving sanctions time to work"; disagreement over reprovisioning Embassies in Kuwait and necessity of a further 'provocation' to justify use of force] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (overnight telegrams) ["The Foreign Secretary is in a fair amount of trouble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to FCO & Cabinet Office ("The Gulf") [top secret records of meetings, messages & calls with US Administration] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Baker message for Hurd (Security Council: next steps) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MOD minute for Powell ("Pay and Allowances in the Gulf") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Gulf Crisis: Burden Sharing") [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [analysis & advice on minute from Tony Newton & related correspondence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT letter to Lawson (his decision to leave the Commons) ["The ERM has gone well"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Economy/EC) [Hurd's trip to Israel seen as a disaster] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Italian Prime Minister") [agenda for Rome European Council] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing for MT ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation needed to plug the gap] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rating") [protection for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Community Charge Capping: Impact on School Budgets") [next year's capping exercise to be more extensive] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("French views on the European Council") [Jay conversation with Elizabeth Guigou] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Cabinet Office minute to No 10 ("Local Authority Finance: 1991/92") [criteria for charge capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UKE Rome telegram 877 to FCO (1610Z) ("Informal European Council: Italian views on the agenda") [seeing MPs "Andreotti unsurpringly placed preparations for the two IGCs, at the top of the European Council agenda"] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [public expenditure negotiations; social security budget; economic forecast; the Gulf; family policies on taxation and child benefit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Chancellor Kohl on EMU") [Kohl on French TV suggests 1 January 1994 as the starting date for stage 2] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Sir Michael Butler fax to Powell ('EMU') [Butler discussion with Padoa Schioppa] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Lilley ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [efficiency savings, tariff increases] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 18 Th	Declassified documents	Key	Bush & Scowcroft memoir	Gulf War: MT letter to George Bush ("we should go sooner rather than later") [excerpt]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2457 to FCO (2357Z) ("Primakov's Visit") ["Primakov got a strongly negative response from the President ... to suggestions for a face-saving way out for Saddam Hussein"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2546 to FCO (2323Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the mood in Washington") ["Administration remains uncompromising over the need for full implementation of the UN resolutions. But no suggestion this requires an early decision on the military option in the absence of a provocation"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2548 to FCO (2358Z) ("Arab/Israel") [Administration "concentrating in the first instance on relations between Israel and the Arab states"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: New York Times") [King Hussein claiming MT told him US troops were "half way to Saudi Arabia" before they were formally requested] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1681 to FCO (0200Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait Security Council resolution") ["No progress. Americans still do not have clearance. Council will revert to occupied territories on 19 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1683 to FCO (1945Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Americans agree to SCR as drafted by the Five. Text submitted to other Council members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Foreign Secretary minute for MT ("Egypt, Israel and Greece") [account of visit; difficulties in Israel ("I landed in the mud and am sorry if this caused you difficulty"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of phone conversation (General Scowcroft-Charles Powell) [reprovisioning/evacuation of US Embassy in Kuwait; US confusion as to events at the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Kuwaiti Crown Prince & Prime Minister letter to MT (Kuwaiti People's Conference) ["Your commitment to ending tyranny and torture is truly noble"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell letter to General Scowcroft (Cradock visit to Washington) ["He will not want to get sensitive areas of military strategy and planning"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Gulf Crisis: visit by Mr Primakov") [background] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute for MT ("Interview with Al-Hayat Newspaper") [background, draft and Powell rewrite] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Ingham minute for MT ("European Council - Rome") [key points briefing for Sunday Lobby] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Italian Prime Minister") ["I think your approach should be that frankly we doubt the utility of the meeting. But since it is being held, it should focus on the real issues of importance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Norman Lamont ("Future Service Share Methodology") [teachers' pay settlement] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Child benefit and PES") ["Understandably, Mr. Newton sees attractions in his concept of a "family premium". But you may feel that you and colleagues should consider the new policy departure more thoroughly"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 letter to Newton PS ("White Paper on new proposals for child maintenance") [MT's "detailed points on the proposals"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Conservative Chairman briefing ("Eastbourne by-election - line to take") ["The parrot has twitched!"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Politics, Gulf, Industry) [SPD win Eastbourne] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: Powell briefing for MT ("State Visit by President Cossiga") [outline agenda, with FCO briefing] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Geoffrey Howe minute to Chris Patten ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [legislation to ensure full benefit of reduction is passed on] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge 1991-92") [RSG settlement, use of capping powers] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Non-Domestic Rates") [indexation of the poundage] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92") [likely to lead to criticism that authorities will escape capping by cutting education services] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [capping proposals will be controversial] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92: Wales") [agreement with local authority associations] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral Meeting with the Chancellor") [central forecast: exchange rate; wage settlements; oil prices; inflation forecast] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Monetary Policy: Major PS minute to Barry Potter ("The October Forecast") [expected growth of 0.5 percent in 1991; high figure for 1991 community charge] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("EMU") [Kohl's suggested date for stage 2 "will have pleased the European lobby and displeased the financial community"] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure Survey") [essential to show we have been prepared to grasp the nettle on defence] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Norman Lamont minute to MT ("Defence Expenditure") [has reduced massively initial demands for savings but cannot justify going further] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [p0ssible solution to the gap between Lamont and King's positions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 19 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Child Benefit and PES") [family premium proposals] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (0050Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: new regional security arrangements") [State Department thinking relayed by Dennis Ross; premature to go into detail] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1687 to FCO (0430Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") [SG briefs Council on decision not to send his mission; growing pressure for a new resolution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1690 to FCO (0455Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") [US agree MSC meeting, but MT opposes because "no agenda or purpose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Eastern Province: contingency planning") [advice to UK citizens] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Proposed meeting with King Fahd: present Saudi thinking") [to discuss timing - "risk of diminishing appetite for a fight, and concern that time turning against Alliance"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soviet Foreign Minister Primakov and others) [Primakov describes visit to Saddam; urges face-saving "flexible linkage" of withdrawal from Kuwait to Arab/Israeli problem; MT emphatically rejects approach - Saddam "a dictator pure and simple", "We must NOT offer him blandishments"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 20 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Andreotti) [Italian politics; Cossiga state visit; European Council; the Gulf; GATT; CSCE; aid to USSR; South Africa; seat of the institutions; IGCs; EC/US; Gorbachev; Libya] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Mr Heath's Press Conference") [Heath states "assurance from Saddam that a number of detainees would be released"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [diplomatic (Heath Mission, situation at UN, Primakov, Kuwait Embassies, Jordan etc), military, oil] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 21 Su	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: Powell minute to MT's diary secretary ("European Council, Rome") [MT wants a briefing meeting ideally on Friday] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Prime Minister's interview with Al-Hayat newspaper") [draft answers for written interview] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("The Gulf: French views") [Charles Powell, Jacques Attali] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Brent Scowcroft) ["Americans... very unhappy about the way things were going at the [UN]"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik) [clarification that Heath visited Baghdad in private capacity; FRG government under heavy pressure to allow Willy Brandt to undertake similar mission] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf") [meeting with Hurd & Tom King: strategic objectives; sensitive issues] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Prime Minister of Japan letter to MT ("The Gulf") [report of his visit to Middle East] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 216 to Cabinet Office (2242Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: technical and scientific aspects") ["could possibly produce a crude nuclear device by the end of this year"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 215 to Cabinet Office (2232Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: politics and economics") ["Saddam confident of his internal position. CIA concerned about the continued reliability of some of the Arabs [coalition allies]... if [Saddam] thinks war imminent, he will take preemptive action"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1695 to FCO (1935Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Exchanges with the Americans, Yemenis and PLO... in light of events in the Occupied Territories over the weekend"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Situation in Kuwait") ["a dying city... non-Iraqi population evacuating"; Iraqi military morale reported to be low] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Child benefit") ["Either a further freeze or up-rating child benefit would... be clear and defensible on grounds of principle. But Tony Newton's proposal would not"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservatism: Ingham minute to MT ("Presentation post-Bournemouth/Eastbourne") [government and party "need to be made to snap out of it .... It's later than they think"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf/Middle East, Politics, Community Charge) [American mood on Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Italy: No.10 minute for Powell (arrangements for President Cossiga's address to Parliament) [order of play] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Cossiga) ["discussion was largely of a philosophical nature about the problems of modern society, including criminality, drugs and terrorism"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Peter Lilley minute to Chris Patten (Community Charge Capping 1991/92) [a firm line must be taken] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to Patten PS ("Community Charge 1991/92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Hunt (consultation papers) [job-related accommodation] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Ken Clarke briefing to MT ("Local Authority Finance 1991/92") [must not set local government impossible targets] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Gulf: FCO minute to Powell ("Bilateral with Chancellor Kohl: Special European Council, Rome, 27/28 Oct 1990") [German financial support for British deployment to Gulf; aid to Jordan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Delors letter to Hurd ("Commission opinion of 21 Oct 1990 on the proposal for ... political union") [mentioned in Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Economic Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [ERM entry; interest rate cut; public spending round] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Privy Council Office ("Scrutiny Debate on Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor wishes one to take place before Dec 1990 IGC] declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Treasury letter to Chief Whip's PS ("Motion for ERM Debate 23 October") [motion agreed with No.10 for tomorrow's debate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Barry Potter minute to Lilley PS ("1990 PES: Post Office, ECGD") [first priority is to seek efficiency savings] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Barry Potter ("Public Expenditure Survey: Progress Report") [top priority must be to defeat inflation and maintain confidence in economic policies] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Andrew Turnbull minute to Lamont PS ("1990 Public Expenditure: Defence") [Lamont and King should resume discussions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 22 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UKE Washington telegram 2561 to FCO (2322Z) ("US/Soviet Relations: Baker's Speech to the American Committee on US/Soviet Relations") [summary/analysis] [released Dec 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Tom King) [major issues in advance of military operations against Iraq: "downfall [of Hussein]... would be a desirable side-effect of our actions"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraqi missile deployment") [SCUD-type missile identified; likely to be more; notifying Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO minute to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [Waldegrave meeting with Charles Jones & Peter Gummer of Shandwick PR firm: note of their advice on state of US public opinion] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1710 to FCO (0325Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Next Steps Resolution") ["ways of dealing in parallel with the Gulf crisis and the situation in the Occupied Territories"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1704 to FCO (0150Z) ("Next steps on Iraq/Kuwait: Military Staff Committee") ["high-level meeting of MSC members"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("draft Social Security Uprating statement") [suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute (internal) to Turnbull (policy changes agreed during course of annual Public Expenditure Surveys) ["two reasons why such agreements should be brought to the attention of other Ministers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lamont, Tony Newton, Tim Renton) ["Social Security uprating 1991-92"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Howe letter to Tony Newton ("DSS legislation 1990-91: child maintenance") ["I am unhappy about embarking on this bill on the basis you propose"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Politics, Child Benefit) [Hussein in Kuwait] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (Delors press conference) [pre-Rome European Council review; Delors suggests December Council should set date for EMU Stage 2, with only two hour talk on political union] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on school provisions] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Waddington minute to Chris Patten (Charge Capping) [police and fire authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Foreign Affairs Council: 22 Oct 1990") [Carli report on EMU to be forwarded to European Council, Italian presidency advising that preparatory work was complete] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Turkey: UKE Ankara telegram 471 to FCO (1400Z) ("Turksat") [BAe hopeful again following suspension of Turkish negotiations with Aerospatiale] [declassified Dec 2017]
90 Oct 23 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Bush Library)	Gulf War: George Bush letter to Israeli PM (Yitzhak Shamir) [declassified 1999]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1731 to FCO (1445Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Negative Israeli reaction to latest US approach over Secretary General's mission. Americans instructed to seek amendments to non-aligned draft resolution, to enable them to vote in favour"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1730 to FCO (0145Z) ("Secretary-General's mission to Israel") ["Americans adopt my idea of a last attempt to get the Secretary-General's representative into Israel... but unless... [they] can pull off a coup with Shamir, there seems no way in which they can avoid a [UN resolution] vote on 24 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2589 to FCO (2355Z) ("The Gulf: authority for the military option") ["US Administration considered that Article 51 gave sufficient authority... [but] it would be much easier to obtain Congressional acquiescence ... [if] authority given by the international community"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Kohl... most concerned that Saddam Hussein could succeed in his obvious tactic of trying to divide the West by selective release of hostages"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Foreign nationals in Iraq") ["French nationals... allowed to leave Iraq... a clear example of attempted wedge-driving"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Riot at site") [protest by Western hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Parkinson minute to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Embargo Surveillance Centre) [welcomes MT visit and provides brief outline of the Centre's functions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 letter to MT (letter from the Prime Minister of Kuwait) [seeks advice as to whether reply needed] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Statement on the Middle East") [draft of Hurd's address to the House: Iraq/Kuwait; Israel] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: Hurd minute to Tom King ("Rolls Royce: engines for an Argentine frigate") [sale of spare parts to facilitate Argentine contribution to multinational force in the Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: President of the Commission of the EC letter to MT (financial assistance for countries most immediately affected by the Gulf crisis) [Turkey, Egypt, Jordan; UK concerns about EC decisions involving major expenditure] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: UKrep Brussels telegram to FCO ("European Council: Rome: 27/28 October 1990: EC issues") [Soviet Union/Eastern Europe; GATT/agriculture; EMU; political union] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign policy/EC: Powell briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Foreign Secretary") [European Council in Rome; Ambassador to South Africa; "You might also needle Delors about his reported comments on a federal Europe"] [declassified Jul 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: Newton PS letter to No.10 (Social Security uprating) [final draft of Tony Newton statement to Parliament] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ted Heath, Economy, EC) [hostages in Iraq] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: David Hunt minute to MT ("Non Domestic Rate Poundages") [transitional arrangements for SMEs] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Italian PM Andreotti letter to MT (Rome European Council agenda) [no mention of GATT Uruguay round] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: UK Permanent Representative Brussels minute to FCO ("European Council: draft conclusions") [Kerr commentary on text he had acquired] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO briefing for Foreign Secretary ("Special European Council, Rome: SoS's bilateral with the PM, 25 October") [agenda] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Council: FCO briefing for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: Brief No.1 Political Union") [objectives, points to make and background] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 minute for MT ('EMU') [MT should study carefully Commons speech by John Smith, seeking to drive wedge between her and Major over EMU] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1734 to FCO (0317Z) ("Secretary General's mission to Israel") ["Resolution deploring Israel's refusal to receive mission... passed unanimously... Bein (Israel) accused the Council of having been diverted from the real issue of Iraq/Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2602 to FCO (2128Z) ("Ad hoc consultations of members of the Military Staff Committtee (MSC)") ["US express "disappointment" that UK will not be sending senior military representative... for meeting on 29 October"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 note to MT (overnight telegrams & article in Times newspaper) ["this week-end's unnecessary European Council"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 minute: Cradock to Powell ("The Gulf: US views on UN authority for military action") [MT endorses US reservations about practicality of obtaining a further UN resolution as a precedent to military action] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: the Gulf") [UN resolution; letter to Emir of Kuwait: Article 51; Primakov peace mission; US intentions; British communities at risk; Saudi views; meeting with Mitterrand; Iraqi intentions; sanctions; Chief of Defence Staff meeting with Gen Powell; Iraqi missiles] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO telegram 1845 to UKE Washington (0845Z) ("Quadripartite meeting of Political Directors: Gulf") ["Agreement on short and long term aims, including need to limit Iraqi military threat after crisis. US attaches importance to international approbation for any military action... Arab/Israel peace process"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Heath) [Heath's report of his meetings with Saddam Hussein and King Hussein of Jordan; Heath "critical of the trend of our policy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cold War: Charles Powell conversation record (MT-Hurd) [too risky to invite Gorbachev for a State Visit in 1991] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("European Council in Rome") ["It is set to be a fairly trying occasion" - European political union; EMU; USSR & Eastern Europe; the Gulf; trans-Atlantic relations; sites of EC institutions; Greek loan] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Norman Lamont ("Community Charge Demand Notice") [proposed revisions] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Merseyside) [police will be staging major operation; allegations against the city council] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("European Council: European Monetary Union") [must stick to line that Hard Ecu COULD evolve into a single currency] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (IRA, Gulf, EC) [IRA's "human bombs" attacks in Londonderry and Newry] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Norman Lamont minute to Chris Patten ("Local Authority Finance 1991-92 Charge-Capping") [opposed to any dilution of the criteria] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/GATT: MT letter to Italian PM Andreotti (Rome European Council agenda) ["we may need to have a good discussion of the GATT Uruguay round"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("European Council 27/28 Oct and the PM's bilateral with meeting with Pres Mitterrand: scene setter") [sees EC issues through prism of Franco-German balance; Gulf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Italy: FCO telegram to UKE Rome ("Secretary of State's bilateral with De Michelis on 25 October") [Council agenda; "foresaw no difficulty in round table discussion of political union in Rome", might be possible to fix starting date for Stage 2 ] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Howe PS record of conversation (Howe-Major-Ibbs) [planning and control of expenditure on the works service vote] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: Hurd minute for MT ("Special European Council, Rome: 27/28 October") [Italians want to focus on preparations for the two IGCs; wants target date for transition to EMU Stage II] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: FCO record of conversation (Hurd-Kohl) ["Special European Council in Rome" - hostages in Iraq; date for transition to EMU Stage II, GATT] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1748 to FCO (1400Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["Next Steps resolution... 'peace offensive' draft... The optimism evident at the earlier meetings was quickly dissipated as the Yemenis and Cubans engaged in a prolonged filibuster"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2617 to FCO (2121Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Americans are under no illusions that air power alone could bring victory... no US led offensive is likely until the higher lever [of US ground forces] can be reached... support [of US public] for the President's Gulf policies... remains pretty steady"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to MODUK ("UK journalists in Saudi Arabia") ["Assurances from the King that British press corps should not decrease in numbers"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: German assistance to British forces deployed to the Gulf") ["Cost has been and remains the hurdle"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, French Ambassador to UK) ["Military Staff Committee"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, US National Security Advisor) ["Gulf crisis": Primakov peace mission to Iraq; US military build-up in Saudi Arabia; US Secretary of State visit to Middle East & London; GATT negotiations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Prince Bandar") [concerns about possible private negotiations between Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi Arabia; reliability of European allies; Jordan; Syria; treatment of UK journalists in Saudi Arabia; Westland: Black Hawk trade prospects with Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to John Major ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [Hammersmith and Fulham case before the Lords for a judgment] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter minute to MT ("Local Authority Interest Rate Swaps") [possible outcomes of Lords' judgment on Hammersmith case] [released July 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Social services: No.10 minute to MT ("Draft statement on child maintenance") [Tony Newton statement to Parliament: suggested amendments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Education: John O'Sullivan memorandum to MT (education as a major plank in government programme and manifesto) ["consider bringing back Norman Tebbit as Education Secretary"] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Rome: Special European Council: remarks on 23 October by M. Delors") [Boris Johnson Telegraph article] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Media: Press Digest for MT (Gulf, Ireland, Economy, EC) [America ready to send more troops to Gulf] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Patten PS minute to Barry Potter ("Local Government Finance: Autumn Announcement") [proposals on charge capping] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Policy Unit minute to Barry Potter ("Chargecapping") [Welsh proposals, police and fire authorities, Scotland] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: John Major minute to MT ("Charge Capping 1991-92") [impact on schools] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to David Waddington ("Community Charge Capping 1991/92") [SSAs for fire authorities] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Chris Patten minute to Geoffrey Howe ("Charge Capping: Lambeth") [preparation for a short separate bill] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Barry Potter briefing ("Community Charge: Charge Capping, 1991-92") [distribution of TSS] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Lunch with President Mitterrand: Rome, 27 October") [France internal; Gulf crisis - French position, burden sharing, WEU aspects, Arab/Israel, Lebanon; EC issues - institutional reform; agriculture/GATT; USSR; enlargement; bilateral defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf/EC: No.10 record of conversation (Scowcroft-Powell) [US concern that the French were pushing strongly for an early International Conference on Arab/Israel] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Community Charge: Department of Environment note ("Community Charge: Collection") [impact of non-collection] [released Dec 2016]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC/Italy: J.R. de Fonblanque note for the record ("European Council conclusions") [Britain not given access to drafts] [declassified Spt 2019]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Hard Ecu") [MT concern that hard ecu should not add to money supply; precise mechanism by which it would operate] [declassified Jun 2018]
90 Oct 26 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Public spending: Lamont PS minute to Hurd PS ("Autumn Statement Press Notices") [need for a coordinated approach] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	EC: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT, political union, Germany, EMU, EBRD, enlargement, Soviet Union, the Gulf, defence cooperation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	EC: MT & Hurd notes (Special European Council in Rome) [discussions during the Council meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Soviet peace missions to Iraq) ["Saddam Hussein cannot be allowed to bargain over withdrawal"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["The Gulf: burden-sharing"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (TNA)	European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand lunch in Rome) [agriculture/GATT; European political union; Germany; EMU; Turkey; EBRD; EC membership; USSR; the Gulf; Defence co-operation] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT speaking note ("European Council - speaking note") [Hurd annotations] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: MT speaking note ("European Council - speaking note") [final text] [released Feb 2020]
90 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	European Council: Report to the European Council by Guido Carli (Council report on EMU) [MT: "NO NO"] [released Feb 2020]

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