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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (Anglo/French Summit) [proposed programme, attendees; Chirac] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Anglo-French Summit, 21 November") [travel requirements for UK delegation; working supper with Chirac] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Moore PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo French Summit: 21 November") [transport ministers will not participate] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 note to Charles Powell (Anglo-French Summit) [use of the Matignon] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [unredacted version] [declassified 2000] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 566 to UKE Bonn (1500Z) ("European Consultations Post Reykjavik") ["off-the-record brain-storming session before the WEU Ministerial meeting"] [released July 2016] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Shultz briefing for President Reagan (Thatcher visit) [declassified 2000] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Common Agricultural Policy: Beef and Dairy Products”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 12 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Queen’s speech, latest polls, Knowsley by-election, teachers’ pay, Robert Armstrong) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to the US, 14/15 November") [key points on arms control] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("Arms Control Negotiations: Implications for European Security") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ken Clarke minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Non Domestic Rates") [transitional arrangement to avoid outcry from businesses] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Rifkind PS minute to Stewart PS ("Review of Law Affecting Banking Services") [membership of review team] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UN") [MT's draft letter to Chancellor Kohl] [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 2885 to FCO (2310Z) ("Falklands Fisheries: Multilateral Solution") [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (resolution on Argentina/Falklands in the UN) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa") ["FRG still pursuing idea of a joint political initiative... [with] US, UK" ] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Channon PS minute to MacGregor PS ("RDGs") [announcement of delay in payment] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Lawson PS minute to Channon PS ("RDGs") [public spending provision for regional incentives] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 1203 to FCO (1824Z) ("France and the Middle East") [criticisms of French policy, French objectives for Lebanon, Arab/Israel dispute, inconsistencies in approach] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKA Paris despatch to FCO ("Cohabitation and Chirac") [cohabitation between Chirac and Mitterrand is generating more friction but unlikely to break down in near future] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 ("PQ by Mr Beith, 4th November") [apologies for failure to note Charles Powell's amendment to draft reply on arms control/Reykjavik] [released July 2016] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Howe, Edwards, Tebbit, King, Jopling, Ridley, MacGregor, Rifkind, Channon, Waldegrave) [alternative uses of agricultural land and sources of rural employment] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: John MacGregor minute to MT (“Public Expenditure Treatment of ERDF Receipts by Privatised Industries”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: meeting with the Belgian Prime Minister”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Kenneth Clarke minute to MT (“London European Council: 5-6 December”) [business and jobs; completing the internal market] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (State Department) |
Defence: Charles Thomas briefing for Shultz (meeting with MT) [Camp David agenda, arms control] [declassified 2013] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Trivial |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: Caroline Ryder note for MT (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Latest weather reports are that it is getting colder and it would be advisable for you to take a coat"] [released Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT notes (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["Alarmed by suggestion to eliminate in 10 years all strategic ballistic missiles … Security of West in danger"] [released Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT briefing cards (Camp David meeting with President Reagan) ["CAN'T trust RUSSIANS when taking a few tanks & columns out of Afghanistan - surely you wouldn't trust them over ballistic missiles"] [released Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (“The Chairman and the BBC”) [has warned Tebbit that MT would prefer him not to send his letter to BBC; suggests she see him in person] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 13 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Nigel Wicks minute for MT (points for meeting with Tebbit) [“I see a danger of some elements of this episode repeating the Westland troubles. A colleague with an obsession, doing things difficult to reconcile with collective responsibility”] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government - Non-Domestic Rates") [freezing and indexing only a temporary solution] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill: Collective Community Charge") [calculation of rate, operation of system] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Unified Business Rate") [Ridley proposes uniform poundage] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Gordon Borrie minute to Stewart PS ("Review of Law Affecting Banking Services") [pleased at proposed liaison group] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries: OAS Resolution") [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (draft resolution on the Argentina/Falklands at the UN) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [MT agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Cabinet Office minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo-French Summit: Prime Minister's Briefing Meeting, 5pm Thursday, 20 November") [arrangements, attendees] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS (Anglo/French Summit) [MT approves proposed UK delegation and programme] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: Poindexter briefing for President Reagan (MT visit) ["concerned about the strategic implications of your Reykjavik proposals"] [declassified Jul 2000] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation (0100Z) (Younger, Genscher, Andreotti, Spandolini, Giraud, Woerner, Chalker, Van den Broek, Van Eekelen, Tindemans, Bosson) ["WEU Ministerial Meeting: European Security Post Reykjavik"] [released July 2016] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“CAP Reform Paper”) [Common Agricultural Policy] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (State Department) |
Cold War: Shultz Evening Reading Item for Reagan ("My meeting with Prime Minister Thatcher") [MT expressed extreme concern about the potential impact of the proposals made at Reykjavik ] [declassified 2013] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Stephen Sherbourne minute for MT (Hurd-Kaufman correspondence) [briefing for PMQs] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Stephen Sherbourne notes on conversation (meeting with Tebbit on BBC) [main points discussed] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 14 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Knowsley by-election, teachers’ pay, unemployment, Reagan-Gorbachev) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: UKE Washington telegram 2904 to FCO (2138Z) ("Prime Minister's meeting at Camp David: arms control") [MT's statement after the meeting, agreed with President Reagan] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 15 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Civil Service long-term pay arrangements”) [advises proceeding with the data collection which would underpin the Government proposals, in anticipation of their being accepted by the Unions, failing which “all bets would be off”] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2908 to FCO (2200Z) ("Camp David: Arms Control") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 16 Su |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (FBI) |
US: FBI airtel (“Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - Victim”) [arrest at time of Nov 1986 Camp David visit] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2920 to FCO (2030Z) ("Camp David: Arms Control") [Shultz speech "Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control and the Future of Deterrence"] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; the City: "further scandals unavoidable"; teachers' pay; "prospects for a more buoyant economy"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government: Non-Domestic Rates") [proposal for a uniform poundage] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Paying for Local Government: Suggested Exemptions from the Community Charge for Residents of 'Homes' and Hostels") [exemptions to be kept to the absolute minimum] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Scottish Rates Bill") [timetable for legislation] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Channon PS minute to Ridley PS (statement draft) [publication on rates and limits] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1987/88") [proposed measure to help "those counties who are losing grant this year compared to last"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Griffiths note to MT (surprising Patrick Minford article) ["Has Lawson made a U-turn?"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Cabinet Office minute for Powell ("Argentine Offer to Declare Cessation of Hostilities") [latest Reuters and BBC monitoring reports] [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd (ITV contracts) [IBA two year extension] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Paul Channon minute to Douglas Hurd ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [length of proposed extension] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Maputo telegram 298 to FCO (0900Z) ("Visit of Chancellor Kohl") [issues in southern Africa, South Africa sanctions, FRG views on visit] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Ridley minute to MT (“Public Expenditure and the European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (visit to US, Iran, teachers’ pay, industry) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 17 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: US Embassy London to State Department (British party reaction to Reykjavik Summit) [declassified 2000] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Arms Control: Speech by Mr Shultz") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2930 to FCO (2352Z) ("Arms Control: Speeches by Shultz and Weinberger") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Channon PS briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Saito: 16.30 19 November") [industrial collaboration; trade imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nigel Wicks minute to Rifkind PS ("Local Government") [timetable for Scottish bill] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("National Non-Domestic Rate: Treatment of Buoyancy") [how to treat growth in total rateable values] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("E(LF) 6th Meeting") [non-domestic rate, exemptions] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [private sector will be given chance to make proposals] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("World Television Service") [BBC proposals] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Ministry of Defence briefing ("Anglo-French Summit: Nuclear Weapons Dialogue") [British Trident programme is unaffected by Reykjavik] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit") [position on EC issues, nuclear cooperation, arms control, east-west relations, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo/French Summit: Briefing Meeting") [aims for the Summit: agriculture, defence, R&D, terrorism, EC] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 1226 to FCO (1629Z) ("Anglo-French Summit, 21 November: Scene Setter") [tensions between Mitterrand and Chirac, differing UK/French views on Middle East, cooperation on arms control, EC Presidency] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Michael Jopling minute to Patrick Mayhew ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [possibility of stepping up inspections of apples imports, prospect of EC Court action] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to John Fretwell (request to meet Leotard) [falls below level at which MT normally willing to receive foreign visitors] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Former Prime Minister: Howe PS letter to Lord Wilson PS (Visit to the Soviet Union) [MT requests that Lord Wilson be advised personally in regard to his request to stay at UK Embassy in Moscow] [released Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council Minutes (1500Z) ("Chile") (NSC 0139) [transition to democracy; outstanding economic program; Reagan's suggests Pinochet State Visit, Shultz demurs ("He has done monstrous things")] [declassified Nov 2004] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: Charles Powell note to MT (the new generation of Leadership in the USSR and its impact on East/West relations) [copy of a speech by French Foreign Minister, in advance of MT's meeting with him] [released July 2016] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Kenneth Clarke minute for Whitelaw (“AIDS and Employment”) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Channon minute to MT (“E(A), 20 November - EC R & D Framework Programme”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe minute for MT (“The Internal Market”) [ways to unblock current measures during UK Presidency] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 18 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (royals “snubbed” in Saudi Arabia, teachers’ pay, industry, economy) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Arms Control: European Coordination") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2934 to FCO (2345Z) ("President Reagan's 18 November Speech") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2933 to FCO (2335Z) ("US Post-Camp David Speeches") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message for Chancellor Kohl (her meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, President of the Kiedanren, Japanese Ambassador) [industrial collaboration; trade imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to MT ("Community Charge: Possible Exemption for the Mentally Handicapped") [a vulnerable sector of society] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Indexation of Non-Domestic Rates") [indexing poundage to RPI] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("Exemptions from the Community Charge") [Scottish Bill exemption for "mentally handicapped"] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Cabinet Office to MT ("Non-Domestic Rates") [allowance for bouyancy, indexation] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("E(LF): Thursday 20 November") [non-domestic rate, exemptions] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to Howe PS ("World Television Service") [MT agrees right way forward is through the private sector] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nicholas Edwards minute to Douglas Hurd ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Hurd PS ("Extension of ITV Contracts") [Tebbit agrees with three year extension] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Moore PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo French Bilateral: Shipping") [shipping policy package at EC Transport Council] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Interview with Le Point") [answers to written questions on terrorism, EC, Chunnel, economy, defence] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to Jopling PS ("Anglo-French Summit") [discussion with French of milk quotas and beef regime] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: MT message to Andreas Papandreou (Falkland Islands) [fisheries zone, UN resolution, UK disappointment that Argentina has chosen to "revive the issue of sovereignty"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: FCO telegram to UKE Athens (“The Internal Market: UK Presidency”) [MT message to EC Heads of Government] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
|
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Walker minute to MT (“Public Expenditure and the European Regional Development Fund”) [declassified 2014] |
|
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“ERDF Receipts for Privatised Industries”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Ministerial Steering Committee on Economic Strategy Sub-Committee on Economic Affairs (E(A))”) [Regional Fund receipts treatment, EC research and development programme] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Walker minute to MT (“EC Research and Development Framework Programme”) [declassified 2014] |
|
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Chief Scientific Advisor minute to MT (“European Community R & D Framework Programme”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: European Trade Union Confederation letter to MT (unemployment and poverty: proposals for action) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Channon minute to MT (“London European Council: 5-6 December”) [consumer interests in formulation of Community policies] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (crime, law and order, MI5,AIDS, Anglo-American relationship) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 19 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Westland: Younger letter to Jerry Wiggin (future of Westland Helicopters) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ian Gilmour MP letter to Younger (David Trefgarne's meeting with Richard Ottoway: MOD use of Broughton equipment) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT message for EC Heads of Government (her meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter to Fitzgerald (her meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japan: have Nakasone's fortunes changed?") [privatisation; education and tax reform; foreign policy] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Cold War: MT message to Mikhail Gorbachev (arms control) [priorities are: INF agreement, cut in US and USSR strategic offensive systems, ban on chemical weapons] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (86) 6th ("Extension of the Dockland Light Railway"; possible exemption from CC for mentally handicapped; non-domestic rates) [declassified Jul 2015] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Paul Channon minute to Douglas Hurd ("Peacock Report: Future of the BBC Licence Fee") [arrangements for collection of fee] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit: Defence and Arms Control Issues") [French reservations about an agreement on INF, implications of US/Soviet dialogue] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Anglo/French Summit: Coordination of UK/French Conditions for Involvement in Nuclear Arms Control") [Mitterrand will want to define circumstances for joining in the process for nuclear disarmament] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell note to MT (Anglo/French Summit) [may wish to bring up Camp David conclusions, Trident, EC budget, terrorism, Middle East] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell note to MT ("Anglo-French Summit") [French political scene, French policy on Middle East, defence and arms control] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 draft press conference statement for MT (Anglo-French Summit) [east-west and arms control, EC Council, terrorism, Middle East, agriculture, Falklands] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Patrick Mayhew minute to Michael Jopling ("French Actions Disrupting UK Lamb Trade") [prospect of retaliation and possibility of action in French courts] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 1057 to FCO (1733Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [Ambassador calls on Elysee; "De Coignac acknowledged that cohabitation was making planning difficult"; programme, French delegation] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Chancellor Kohl letter to MT (immigration, terrorism and security of Europe) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 38th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 20 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (crime, law and order, latest polls, AIDS) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("NATO Generals on LRINF") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Planning: the Sainsbury Group") [breakdown of the number of outstanding planning appeals; No.10: "...[MT] was very interested to see these figures..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Norgrove minute for MT ("Lessons of Chernobyl") [interim CCU report; "bureaucratic and would not ... carry much reassurance for the world outside"] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Wybrew minute for MT ("CCU Report - Lessons of Chernobyl") ["We have to demonstrate that the benefits of nuclear power can be harnessed safely"] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to Gorbachev) [arms control] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO minute for Powell ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Timing of Revaluations") [non-domestic rate issues] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Television Service") [use of licence fee income] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand-Chirac-Howe-Younger-Giraud-Channon-Raimond-Jopling-Madelin) [nuclear and chemical weapons, Middle East, terrorism, Chunnel, EC budget, EC internal market, EC/US relations, agriculture] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: FCO telegram 768 to UKE Paris (1130Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: Larosiere Succession") [options for IMF candidacy, Airbus issue] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Ministry of Agriculture record of conversation (Jopling-Guillaume) [EC agri-monetary package, sheepmeat, scoio-structrual proposals, beef, milk] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 briefing ("Anglo/French Summit Meeting, Paris 21 November 1986") [administrative arrangements, delegation, programme, travel] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (“Alternative Uses of Agricultural Land and Sources of Rural Employment”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Clarke letter to Howe (“EC: Employment Initiative”) [a draft resolution] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Greek Ambassador letter to MT (E.E.C. summit meeting) [invitation to reception] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Discussion Papers”) [and draft message to EC heads of government] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 21 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5, AIDS, economy) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Powell minute to MT (draft message to Gorbachev) [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mitterrand) [defence and arms control issues, nuclear cooperation, EC immigration, EC Commission, agricultural surpluses] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chirac) [southern Africa and Soviet involvement, Middle East, Falklands, Spain, Japan, visit to Moscow, defence and arms control issues, EC budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 22 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 1252 to FCO (1042Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: 21 November") [comments to the press on bilateral relations, EC problems, nuclear weapons, Middle East] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 23 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Japan") [MT rebuts Japanese press allegations that she criticised Japanese PM at a meeting with Chairman of the Kaidanren] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Younger minute for MT (the ALARM programme: development problems) [MT: "another dreadful story"] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("Implications of the Elimination of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Norgrove letter to Unwin ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [MT "concerned about the time it has taken to produce this first report ... next stage should be taken forward as a matter of urgency"] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill Clause 5: Timing of Revaluations") [requirement for regular revaluations] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill Registration of Students") [definition of full time students] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 letter to Chancellor of the Exchquer PS ("Local Authority needs indicators") ["The Prime Minister found this absurd and has said it must be stopped"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Local Authority needs indicators") ["being held now because the Scottish bill is to be published later this week... the local authority associations are likely to make hostile statements to the press afterwards"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Edwards PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's meeting with local authority associations to dicuss reform of local government finance) ["in Wales there has by no means been the total opposition to the Green Paper which is implied by the associations in their letter"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC letter to MT (disposal of Barclays Bank investment in Barclays National Bank of South Africa) [press statement] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority letter to MT (World TV service) [concern at prospect of public money being made available] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris telegram 1260 to FCO (1707Z) ("Anglo-French Summit: French Media Reactions") ["Consensus that problems over terrorism, lamb and Falklands were eclipsed by common approach on nuclear and control issues"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Ministry of Defence record of conversation (Younger-Giraud) [UK commitment to Trident, French SSBNs, Giraud's proposals for cooperation, warship visits, AEW] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT letter to UK Ambassador to France (Anglo-French Summit) ["very much encouraged by the discussions", thanks to staff for preparations; his letter about Chirac "particularly perceptive and helpful"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT message to Jacques Chirac (Anglo-French Summit) ["reassuring to find how close are our views on virtually all the major issues"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT letter to President Mitterrand (Anglo-French Summit) ["pleased to find how close are our views on the most important issues, particularly in the fields of defence and arms control, but also on EC matters"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1397 to FCO (1045Z) ("Netherlands Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow 20-22 November") [summary of main points from van den Broek briefing] [released July 2016] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Foreign Affairs Council: 24 November 1986”) [“Preparation for European Council”] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council, 5/6 December: United Kingdom Delegation”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 24 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5, Labour defence policy,
economy, education, local government) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative party: Michael Alison minute to MT (backbench operation) [“your troops are rallying!”] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative party: Michael Alison minute to MT (mobilising backbenchers) [re-activating backbench group, list of recruits within 24 hours] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Decision Timetable") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Lord Trefgarne letter to Broughton (investigation into MOD's usage of his patents) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Garret Fitzgerald letter to MT (her meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley letter to Edwards (further guidance on planning policies, including land for housing) [Ridley's view on need for new circular not shared by Cabinet colleagues; MT advises that Ridley should make his points in a speech instead] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates; Space programme; Cardiff & the Docklands; IMF Managing Director] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: MT message to Gorbachev ("Prime Minister's Message to Gorbachev") [arms control, Afganistan, human rights, terrorism] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ridley, Edwards, Rifkind, Ingham, Peter Stredder, Chairmen of the the four local authority Associations) ["Meeting with the Local Authority Associations": "All of the associations opposed the community charge"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (Powell, Bujon) [French vote on the Falklands resolution at the UN] [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("M Giscard D'Estaing") [Giscard's political position, EMS, defence cooperation, east-west issues] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [preliminary arrangements] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Soviet and East European Studies") [MT concerned that loss of expertise is a risk to national security] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with M. Delors") [economic & social situation/job creation; internal market; terrorism; drugs; AIDS; European Cancer Year; MT visit to Washington; East/West relations; ex novo review of EC finances; decisions on beef/milk; research costs; EC Secretary-General] [released Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: President of the European Parliament letter to MT (meeting with President Reagan) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“Budget Council, 26-27 November”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Peter Brooke letter to Kenneth Clarke (European Community employment initiative) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Kenneth Baker letter to Kenneth Clarke (“EC: Employment Initiative”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Afghanistan: possible European Council statement”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“European Council: Presidency papers”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 25 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5, Tory divisions, teachers’ pay, South Africa) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Government policy: Michael Alison minute to MT (“Your meeting with Lord President, Lord Privy Seal and Chief Whip after Cabinet”) [PMQs, Wright case] [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 2995 to FCO (0232Z) ("Proposal for the Elimination of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Patrick Jenkin MP letter to MT (3rd meeting of the UK-Japan 2000 Group) [industrial/scientific/technological collaboration; education reform] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Ridley minute for MT (publication of the Efficiency Scrutiny & transfer of the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate) [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Norman Fowler minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill Community Charge Registration: Exchange of Information") [social security records] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Malcolm Rifkind ("Non-Domestic Rates: Indexation") [burden on industry and commerce] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Rifkind PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill") [commentary on the bill] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1987/88") [measures to address loss of grant under new proposals] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to Lawson PS ("Briefing on Monetary Policy and the Exchange Rate") [MT agreed Lawson suggestion of updated line to take on interest rates and exchange rate; No.10 draft] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Giscard) [French political situation, future of the EMS, nuclear cooperation] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Treasury record of conversation (Lawson-Nanteuil) [arms control, EC budget and agricultural spending, Airbus aid, Nimrod] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 16 to FCO ("Five Wise Men's Annual Report") [outlook for economic growth, unemployment] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors, Lamy, Hannay) [economic & social situation/job creation/internal market; terrorism/immigration/drugs; AIDS/cancer; MT visit to Washington/East/West relations/arms control; South Africa; ex novo review of EC finances; decisions on CAP/beef/milk; structural funds; sex discrimination] [released Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: No.10/Policy Unit briefing for MT (meeting on AIDS) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 718 to FCO (1638Z) (“European Council: request for interview with the Prime Minister in the margins”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Cabinet Office letter to Howe PS (“Possible meeting between the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Delors) [EC affairs: economic and social situation; terrorism, immigration, drugs; CAP; structural funds; sex discrimination] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT message to EC Heads of Government (“Presidency Report on Frontier Controls, Terrorism, Immigration and Drugs”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT message to EC Heads of Government (“Presidency Report on the Economic and Social Situation”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: MT message to EC Heads of Government (European Council in London 5-6 December: agenda) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 26 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5, Iran-Contra affair, AIDS, law and order) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute for Powell ("Constraints on Shorter-Range INF") [declassified 2015] |
|
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3015 to FCO (0216Z) ("SALT II Limits") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands: UNGA Vote: FRG) [MT's draft message to Chancellor Kohl] [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: arms embargo on South Africa") ["[Howe] intends to authorise our delegation in New York to vote for the resolution provided the Americans and French also vote in favour"; MT: "we should not do anything to persuade them to vote that way"] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [regime for community radio] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Alastair Burnet letter to MT (DSB) [ITN's proposal for news service] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: David Norgrove note to MT (Duke Hussey) [any meeting would have to be considered carefully] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("BBC and ITN") [organisational structure, news, editorial control] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Orlov") [human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, and their link to disarmament] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Norman Fowler- Whitelaw-Sir Donald Acheson) [AIDS] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“Budget Council, 26-27 November 1986: 1986 and 1987 Budgets”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO (“European Council”) [Denmark not content with internal market package] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 39th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Nov 27 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Reagan, Iran-Contra affair, MI5) [released 2017] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Decision Timetable") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: FCO minute to MOD ("Implications of the Elimination of Ballistic Missiles") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Bonn to FCO ("SALT II Ceilings") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: UKE Washington telegram 3024 to FCO (2355Z) ("SALT Limits") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 3026 to FCO (2330Z) ("NSC/Iran/Nicaragua") [sale of arms to Iran to fund Contras] [declassified Nov 2016] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter for Chancellor Kohl (German vote on Argentina/Falklands in the UN) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("Cumulating Costs") [quoting spending levels and charges] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [no question of licence fee revenue being used for BBC external services] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Charles Powell minute to Younger PS ("Anglo-French Nuclear Co-Operation: Discussion with M. Giraud") [some of Giraud's proposals go beyond agreed limits of discussion] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: British Aerospace letter to Charles Powell ("BAe Advanced Turboprop Aircraft (ATP) for Greece") [hopes MT will discuss the possible contract with Papandreou] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Orlov, Lord Bethell) ["Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr. Orlov": human rights conference in Moscow; conditions for scientists in the USSR] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Drugs: Policy Unit minute for MT (“India Relents on Drug Liaison Officers”) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Prime Minister Gonzalez of Spain letter to MT (completion of the Internal Market) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT (“EC Budget Council, 26-27 November”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 28 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“European Council”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Nov 29 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Prime Minister Craxi of Italy letter to MT (completion of the Internal Market) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MOD ("ALARM") [possible sale of Royal Ordnance to BAe] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Edwards minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Appeals") [work should be handled by local valuation courts] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Whitelaw minute to MT ("Rate Support Grant and Rate Capping: Total Expenditure") ["we are faced with an extremely serious problem... [since 1980] we have calculated a local authority's "total expenditure"... in a way that we must now acknowledge to have no lawful basis"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Cabinet Office record of conversation ("Total Expenditure Bill") [Whitelaw, Ridley, Edwards, Biffen, MacGregor, Lang, Wakeham, Lord Denham] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to David Norgrove ("MISC 128: Meeting on Tuesday 2 December") [regulatory regime for local radio] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: UKE Athens telegram 565 to FCO (0845Z) ("The Greek Political Scene: An Update") [Papandreou is "in a corner", will "not be easy to deal with Greece over the coming months"] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 1037 to FCO (1000Z) ("FRG Internal Political Round-Up") [coalition likely to be returned again at election] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 1 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: UKE The Hague telegram 654 to FCO (0925Z) ("Visit of Dutch Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to Moscow") [reform; human rights; trade; SDI] [released July 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative party: Michael Alison minute to MT (Commons support) [first meeting of backbench group] [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Treasury minute to MOD ("ALARM") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Government response to the Fifth Report from the Environment Committee, Session 1985/86: Planning: Appeals, Call-In and Major Enquiries") [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [problems with Department of the Environment] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets; Managing Director of IMF; Peter Walker/Sizewell decision; Bank of England directors; IMF: UK economy; dual resident companies ] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Italy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Italian Summit") [Craxi agrees 11 Feb in London; Powell "Oh dear!"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Regional Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Development") ["I know... that you have been worried about the strength of feeling in the south-east against over rapid development... It does, however, have some other advantages"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Regional Policy: Edwards PS letter to No.10 ("South Cardiff urban renewal") [revised text of Ridley speech] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [do something to protect owners] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: FCO briefing for MT ("European Council: Prime Minister's meeting with Mr Lubbers, 1745 hours, 4 December") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Cabinet Office minute to Hurd PS ("MISC 128: Green Paper on Radio Policy") [financing arrangements] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Francois Mitterrand message to MT (conference of African heads of state) [in French] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Francois Mitterrand message to MT (conference of African heads of state) [in French] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: UKE Athens telegram 570 to FCO (1140Z) ("Papandreou") [defence sale prospects, Greek defence and civil projects] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5 case, Kinnock speech in Atlanta) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 2 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office (70th anniversary of the Cabinet Office) [MT expresses concern about draft article] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Channon minute to MT ("Japan") [summary of conversations with Prime Minister Nakasone and others in Tokyo] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Fowler ("Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Bill Community Charge Registration: Exchange of Information") [difficulty of registering social security recipients] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind mintue to John MacGregor ("Non-Domestic Rates: Indexation") [ceiling will be index-linked] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [consensus that domestic rates should be aboliished but no consensus on what should take their place] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister") [key issues] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Department of Health and Social Security minute for No.10 (“AIDS: Briefing to the Prime Minister”) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (government appeals in MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit, Reagan’s popularity ratings) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 3 We |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: NSC note for ?Poindexter (MT letter to Reagan urging NATO commit to Camp David points) [declassified 2000] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Intelligence: Michael Alison letter to Robert Armstrong (UK press reports) [“the idea that I would describe you in the terms alleged is grotesque”] [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("DROPS") [Younger letter to Gilmour: elimination of Broughtons from the competition] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (Wicks, Simon Dugdale) [DROPS: Broughton Ltd. against MOD] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: MacGregor minute for Ridley ("Air Pollution Control: Consultation Paper) [new costs for local authorities] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Willie Whitelaw ("E(LF): Community Charge - Appeals") [role of the courts] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Netherlands: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lubbers, van den Broek) [East/West relations; extradition of MacFarlane & Kelly; Van Agt appointment to Tokyo; EC internal issues; South Africa; new Managing Director of IMF] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [community radio operators] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Channon PS minute to Hurd PS ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [potential for radio interference] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Norman Tebbit minute to Geoffrey Howe ("World Television Service") [no question of licence fee support for BBC extending external services] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: Charles Powell note to Peter Lloyd (Greek navy) [will bring efforts to win an order to MT's attention] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: No.10 letter to UK Ambassador Washington (“International Conference on Private Sector Initiatives”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 40th (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Rothschild tries to clear his name in MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit, Reagan’s meetings with Colonel North) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Lord Hailsham PS letter to No.10 (“Consultation with the Council on Tribunals”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 4 Th |
Declassified documents |
Key |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: MT letter to Reagan (Iran-Contra -"anything which weakens you weakens America") [declassified/released 2000] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: GEC letter to MT (why the Government should buy the Nimrod Airborne Early Warning System) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Health: Willetts minute for MT ("Review of Community Care") [Fowler wants to announce Griffiths review] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (EC Heads of Government, plus Delors) [future financing] [declassified Aug 2013] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [Ridley wants to publish statement on proposals] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("Total Expenditure Bill") [alternative timings & approaches] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Edwards letter to Ridley (Total Expenditure Bill) ["coming under increasing pressure to announce the 1987/88 RSG Settlement for Wales"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister/Agriculture: Wicks briefing for MT ("Meeting of Colleagues) [Jopling's "anxieties and position"; Campbell-Savours and national security] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Monetary Policy") [Lawson "dislikes the feeling that you have other channels of advice which may put arguments against what he wants"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
France: Howe PS minute to Lawson PS ("Courtesy Call by French Ambassador, 24 November") [French, German positions on Airbus launch aid] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (latest polls, Rothschild and MI5 case, Kinnock’s US visit) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“The Cabinet Office 1916-86”) [article] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Chief Scientific Advisor minute to MT (“Second Joint Report of the Chairmen of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD) and the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC)”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 5 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Second Joint Report by the Chairmen of the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD) and the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC) (“The Science Base and Industry”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 6 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (AEI) |
EC: London European Council (Presidency Conclusions) |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("AWACS/Nimrod") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Younger PS letter for No.10 ("Project 'Moonflower'") [UK declining offer to buy Stealth aircraft "while the programme itself remains strictly black"] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Environmental Affairs: Clarke minute for Ridley ("Air Pollution Control: Consultation Paper") [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Kenneth Baker minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [treatment of students] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to Ridley PS ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [MT not convinced it would be right to aim to publish a document before Christmas] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister/Wales: Wicks briefing for MT (bilateral with Nick Edwards) [asks for an urgent "political and private talk"] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 (future of the South Atlantic Fund) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Rifkind PS minute to David Norgrove (draft statement) [allocation of Scottish spending provision] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Green Paper on Radio Policy") [coverage of views on controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 8 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nicholas Ridley minute to MT ("Green Paper on Radio Policy: Local Radio") [coverage of politically controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Wicks ("DROPS") [Broughton Ltd. against MOD: situation within the Department] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute to Cabinet Office ("ALARM") [sale of Royal Ordnance to British Aerospace] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Group Captain Palmer letter to MT (the decision over Nimrod: his views) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Sherbourne minute for Wicks ("AWACS and Nimrod") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: President of Boeing letter to MT (AWACS against Nimrod as the Airborne Early Warning System) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Call on Prime Minister Nakasone") [UK Ambassador: trade issues; political dialogue] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Lord Hailsham minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [proposals to be made public] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Ridley PS minute to David Norgrove ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [need to to publish a document on how the charge would work] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Interest Rates") [joint paper by Treasury and Bank of England] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Monetary Policy and Interest Rates") [interest rate rise needed now, but so also is tight PSBR in budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Nigel Wicks minute to MT (DSB) [ITN's proposal for news service] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Paul Channon ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting: Geneva, February 1987") [brief for political and technical preparation for conference] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Norman Tebbit ("World Television Service") [more preparatory work needed] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: UKE Paris letter to Bernard Ingham ("Prime Minister's Interview with Le Point") [variations between interview as delivered and as published] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO record of conversation (sent 1100Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial Meeting: Chevening: 9 December: Soviet Union/Eastern Europe"] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Seventh Anniversary of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan") [MT agrees to Sandy Gall ITV news interview] [released Jul 2018] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Foreign Policy: FCO record of conversation (1030Z) (Howe, Shultz, Genscher, Raimond) ["Quadripartite Ministerial: Chevening: 9 December: CSCE": human rights] [released July 2016] |
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86 Dec 9 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MI5 case, European Community, British Gas, national curriculum) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Fairclough minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: OD (86) 20") [technology aspects of the choice between Nimrod and AWACS] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Nimrod/AWACs") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Channon minute for Younger ("E(RD) Remits to the Ministry of Defence") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: DTI minute to MOD (the Government decision regarding ALARM) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Griffiths minute for MT ("AEW: Nimrod and the E-3A") [technical risk; presenting the decision] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham minute for MT ("Nimrod/AWACS Presentation") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Chairman of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations letter to MT (visit to UK) ["The exchange of views with you... was very stimulating..."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Privy Council Office record of conversation (Whitelaw, Baker, Walker, Clarke & others) [Department of Environment agrees to take lead role in event of future nuclear accident outside UK] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: FCO message to UKE Moscow ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [declassified Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Willie Whitelaw ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [need for a statement of principle reaffirming government's commitment to replacing rates] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [Ridley wants to publish a document before Christmas] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Peter Stredder to MT ("Paying for Local Government - Response to Consultation") [Ridley wants to publish statement on government's intentions] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Total Expenditure Bill") ["Cabinet tomorrow is the last opportunity to inform all colleagues of what will be a very sensitive piece of legislation"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Leigh Pemberton-Middleton-Burns-George-Griffiths) [monetary conditions a little too lax; base rates] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Powell minute to MT ("Argentina/Falklands") [Powell conversation with Lord Sieff - feeler from Alfonsin; MT: "Will NOT discuss sovereignty. Islands are BRITISH and will STAY BRITISH"] [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Howe PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("World Television Service") [not letting BBC's proposals dictate agenda] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 10 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour defence policy, MT’s contempt for Kinnock, latest polls, MT’s visit to Strasbourg, MI5) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Parliament: Michael Alison record of conversation (MT meeting with President of Spanish Congress of Deputies) [British parliamentary system compared to the Spanish] [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham minute to Chief Whip (Nimrod/AWACS Presentation) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Younger, MacGregor, Channon) [Airborne Early Warning Aircraft: political & technical aspects] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Nicholas Ridley minute to Willie Whitelaw ("'Paying for Local Government': Caravans, Huts and Chalets") [special provision for caravans] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 (Rate Support Grant: expenditure definitions) [statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: Tam Dalyell MP letter to MT (the Business Magazine account of the Lonrho-Mexican Falklands initiative) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Charles Powell note to MT ("World Administrative Radio Conference on High Frequency Broadcasting") [risk of losing up to half BBC External Services frequencies; MT willing to veto Final Acts if necessary to block] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [indexation to RPI, concessionary licences for pensioners] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: MT letter to Lord Thomson TV (World TV service) [would examine proposals from private sector on their merits] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe) [MT to send message to Papandreou regarding ex-King's son's attendance at Sandhurst] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Memoirs/Falklands: Wicks minute for MT ("Ministerial Memoirs: Mr James Callaghan") ["trying to construe history so as to give the reader the impression that the Argentinians were tipped off [about 1977 naval deployment]"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 41st (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs) [confidential annex on local government finance] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock’s defence policy, industry, economy, law and order) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 11 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Memoirs: No.10 minute to MT (“Ministerial Memoirs: Mr. James Callaghan”) [1977 non-invasion of Falklands by Argentina - Callaghan’s interpretation] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft: OD Meeting at 5.30pm on Wednesday 17 December") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Meeting with Lord Weinstock") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Letter from President of Boeing") [MT's draft reply] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Wicks minute for MT ("Parliamentary Handling of Nimrod/AWACs") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley letter to Whitelaw ("'Payment for Local Government' - response to consultation") [acknowledgement of responses; unresolved policy issues; publication] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Association of District Councils letter to MT (meeting to discuss reform of local government finance) ["I appreciate greatly your receiving us and believe the discussions were very constructive"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to David Norgrove ("Interest Rates") [Lawson rejects MT idea that PSBR set too high in budget] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [ministers to be given more time to consider the draft] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
New Zealand: David Lange message to MT (review of defence policy) [presence of battalion in Singapore] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour’s defence policy, Nimrod) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 12 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Government Response to Advice from the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD)”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 14 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Willie Whitelaw minute to Nicholas Ridley ("'Paying for Local Government' - Response to Consultation") [statement on policy intentions] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT (Meeting with Lord Weinstock about the AEW contract) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Derek Jackson letter to MT (the Nimrod AEW problems) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham minute for Powell ("Presentation - Nimrod/AWACs") [criticisms to meet & positive points] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of phone conversation (Ingham, Parkinson) [Nimrod/AWACs - constituency interest] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell (Captain Palmer's letter to MT) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Ingham minute for Bridadier Budd ("Chernobyl PQ") [CCU report - "great deficiency" with his draft PQ] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [the markets/interest rates: MT concerns] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
G7: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Foundation for the cohesion of the West: 21st Century Trust") [set up in response to suggestion that there is "a prolbem of growing strains of cohesion in the West"] [released July 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Douglas Hurd minute to Nicholas Ridley (statement on plans) [enforcement and appeals] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 letter to Whitelaw PS (Prime Minister's meeting with Lady Porter) [request for briefing] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lawson PS note to David Norgrove (Gordon Pepper talk) [Lawson's credibility; monetary policy] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands Fisheries: Multilateral Solution: Antarctic Treaty Framework") [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Nigel Wicks ("Television Licence Fee") [concessionary licences for pensioners, minors] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Greece: John MacGregor minute to Paul Channon ("Export Credit for Greece") [need to go very cautiously on further credit business with Greece] [declassified Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1504 to FCO (1930Z) ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [Cartledge, Gorbachev] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Afghanistan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Cranborne: Afghanistan") [released Jul 2018] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4540 to FCO (2105Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 15/16 December: Ex Novo Review") [record of conversation] [released Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod, AWACS, industry, Labour’s defence policy) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 15 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Commander-in-Chief Fleet letter to Lord Weinstock (TIGERFISH torpedo) [fleet is pleased with the technology] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute for MT ("Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft: OD Meeting: 17 December - Suplimentary Brief") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MOD ("ALARM") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("OD Meeting: Airborne Early Warning Aircraft") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod AEW & GEC's views of the assessment process) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Ingham minute for MT ("Nimrod/AWACs - Presentation") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Meeting with Lord Weinstock") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MT letter to President of Boeing (AWACS/Nimrod competition) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lord Weinstock) [Nimrod project & GEC strategy] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Lord Hailsham ("Use of PR consultants") [policy on firms searching for Government business] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Whitelaw letter to Ridley ("Government response to the Fifth Report from the Environment Committee, Session 1985/86: Planning: Appeals, Call-In and Major Enquiries") [Policy Unit: "The Committee demonstrates less dissatisfaction than this office with the planning appeal delays in the system... it is time for the DoE to be asked to sign up for a clear objective to improve this element in their performance"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Chernobyl: Unwin letter to Norgrove ("The Lessons of Chernobyl") [MT approves statement on interim report] [released Dec 2017] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Local government: Department of the Environment letter to No.10 ("Islington's Debt") [Norgrove - "I think I had better move house!"; MT - "Not to Southwark!"] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Tebbit PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [search for efficiency will yield savings] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: John Biffen minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [Winnick bill on fee concessions] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Lord Bethell letter to Howe ("Prime Minister's Message: Call on Gorbachev") [thanks for assistance in securing visa to USSR] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Reagan Library) |
Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1445Z) ("ICBM Modernization") (NSC 0140) [declassified Aug 2018] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Policy Unit minute for MT (“AIDS”) [medical research, sterile needles for drug addicts, announcements] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic policy: UK Ambassador Washington letter to No.10 (“International Conference on Private Sector Initiatives”) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Armstrong note circulated to Cabinet - C(86) 24 (Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 16 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod, AWACS, Labour’s defence policy, MI5, industry, AIDS) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Cabinet Office minute for Wicks (AWACs - a note by John Wiggins) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Powell minute for MT ("Cabinet: AEW") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: Lord Weinstock letter to MT (Nimrod assessment: GEC's ability to meet the deadline) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Statement to Parliament") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell (AEW competition: draft speaking note for use by members of the Cabinet after announcement of a decision if in favour of E-3A) [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Radio Green Paper") [coverage of politically controversial issues] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 17 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Myra Hindley, Nimrod, AWACS, Labour’s defence policy, European Community) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute for Powell ("AEW Competition: Public Line to Take") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: Channon minute to MT ("Japan: alcoholic drinks") ["...outline of the new tax structure to be applied to Scotch whisky and other alcoholic drinks... effectively means a continuation of discrimination."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Nigel Lawson minute to Paul Channon ("1986-7 Pay") [handling of pay issues] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Jopling PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [percentage change for agriculture, fisheries, food] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: Younger PS minute to MacGregor PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [revised totals for civilian and service manpower] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 1103 to FCO (1610Z) ("FRG Monetary Policy") [new target range for Central Bank money] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(86) 42nd (Parliamentary Affairs, Home Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Airborne Early Warning Aircraft) [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Nimrod/AWACS, Labour’s difficulties, AIDS, MI5) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 18 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Government Machinery: MT letter to Chairman of ACARD (Government Research and Development expenditure) [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Conservative Party: Policy Group Report ("Managing the economy") [urges joining ERM; reducing basic rate of income tax to 25p, top rate perhaps to 50p] [released Oct 2017] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Michael Alison minute to MT (Northamptonshire County Council) [rate support settlement grant] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Hartley Booth minute to MT ("The White Economy") [income of charities and voluntary bodies - MT: "a pretty phoney figure"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Progress Report on the FICZ") [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to Tebbit PS ("1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [continuing search for efficiency] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Television Licence Fee") [concessions for pensioners] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
France: MT message to Francois Mitterrand (North/South dialogue) [international community can agree on a range of development issues] [declassified Jan 2017] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4665 to FCO (1905Z) ("Ex Novo: Coreper Brainstorming: 19 December 1986") [report on amabassadors' 'brainstorming' session with Delors] [released Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 19 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (“heads must roll” over Nimrod, economy, unemployment, AIDS) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 21 Su |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet System") [proposed invitees] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Defence: MOD minute to Cabinet Office ("ALARM") [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: John MacGregor minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Charge: Appeals") [authorities should have regard to costs their actions may impose on others] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Broadcasting: David Norgrove minute to Hurd PS ("Television Licence Fee") [second reading of Winnick's bill] [declassified Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Australia: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell (new High Commissioner) [appointment of McClelland] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Seminar on the Soviet System) [request that Cabinet Office be represented] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister's Tours Abroad: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Zamyatin) ["Prime Minister's Visit to the Soviet Union"] [released Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Aerospace: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (“Rowe & Pitman Report on British Airways”) [“It is a matter of judgment how close to the date of a sale a report can be published without verification”] [declassified 2014] |
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86 Dec 22 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (criticisms of Kinnock, Budget, economy, law and order) [released 2017] |
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86 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 minute to Ridley PS ("The Sainsbury Group") [date of next meeting; planning issues] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Community Charge: Association of Metropolitan Authorities letter to MT ("Paying for Local Government") [help for people on low incomes] [released Feb 2016] |
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86 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Stewart PS minute to David Norgrove ("Review of Banking Services Law") [proposed membership of the review body] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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86 Dec 23 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Turkey: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit to the UK by the Turkish Foreign Minister") [declassified July 2016] |
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86 Dec 24 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
New Zealand: MT message to David Lange (review of defence policy) [danger of withdrawing battalion in Singapore] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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86 Dec 27 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister/Environment: Nick Ridley letter to MT (offer to help with policy groups & manifesto; asks to meet) ["a short talk about a lot of the problems at DOE - whenever you have time"] [released Jul 2018] |
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86 Dec 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Japan: UKRep Brussels telegram to FCO ("EC-Japan: alcoholic drinks") ["Regret that the discrimination against imported spirits will be maintained."] [declassified Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 (MT's draft reply to Tam Dalyell: sinking of the Belgrano) [declassified 2016] |
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86 Dec 29 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("European Community: M. Delors' Visit to London: 5 February") [scheduling of meetings] [released Dec 2014] |
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86 Dec 30 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: Norman Fowler minute for MT (AIDS - Ministerial broadcast) [to coincide with leaflet drop] [declassified 2015] |
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86 Dec 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (London Borough of Brent: receipt of fake correspondence) [abusive letter with fake 'Prime Minister' letterhead] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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86 Dec 31 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
National Health: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Norman Fowler) [agreed to seek maximum media coverage for AIDS leaflet but no ministerial broadcast] [declassified 2015] |
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87 Jan 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Mark Addison minute to Stewart PS (Review of Banking Services Law) [membership of the review] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Central Statistical Office paper ("Monthly Monetary Assessment: December 1986") [evidence of monetary conditions] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Falklands: MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (the Business Magazine account of the Lonrho-Mexican Falklands initiative) [declassified 2016] |
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87 Jan 2 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn saving telegram 1 to FCO ("Federal German Economy") [GNP growth slowed, economic figures] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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87 Jan 3 Sa |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Cyprus: President Kyprianou letter for MT (missing persons in Cyprus) [declassified Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Lord Hailsham minute to Ian Stewart ("Review of Banking Services Law") [membership of the review] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees; draft Agenda] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Percy Cradock ("Prime Minister's Visit to Moscow: Eastern Europe") [MT requests fresh assessment in advance of visit] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Lord Bethell letter to MT (New Year Greetings to the Prime Minister from the Sakharovs) [relayed following his stay with the Sakharovs in Moscow] [released Dec 2018] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 009 to FCO (1430Z) ("Call on Sakharov and Mrs Bonner") [recount Ambassador Cartledge's visit] [released Dec 2018] |
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87 Jan 5 Mo |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (FCO) |
Cold War: UK Embassy in Prague to FCO (1986 Annual Report on Czechoslovakia) [declassified 2007] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (taxes, North-South divide, local government, domestic politics, industry) [released 2017] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Public spending: MacGregor PS minute to David Norgrove ("Publication of the 1987 Public Expenditure White Paper") [presentation plans, press engagement] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Seminar on the Soviet Union") [invitees] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Moscow") [objectives; programme] [released Jul 2017] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Hon. Secretary of the National Council for Soviet Jewry ("Mothers for Freedom") [request for meeting with MT] [released Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 6 Tu |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Prime Minister: Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry letter to MT ('Mothers for Freedom' delegation: request for meeting with MT) ["We are broken women .... Not only are our children hostages, so are we"] [released Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (MT comments on election, domestic and US politics) [released 2017] |
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87 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("European Monetary System (EMS)") ["Franco-German differences over EMS exchange rates"] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: Young PS minute to David Norgrove ("Outlook for RPI") [Department of Employment note] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 7 We |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 8 to FCO (1730Z) ("FRG Economy") [overall growth is disappointing] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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87 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock speech, economy) [released 2017] |
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87 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Local Government: Ridley PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1987/88 Statement on 13 January") [Ridley statement to Parliament] [declassified Oct 2016] |
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87 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: David Norgorve minute to MT ("Foreign Exchange Reserves") [MT note: "As we are not a member of the ERM I hope we could resist" Belgian request] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 8 Th |
Declassified documents |
Minor |
Archive (TNA) |
Germany: UKE Bonn telegram 10 to FCO (1005Z) ("FRG Election Campaign") [coalition firm favourites to win] [declassified Dec 2016] |
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87 Jan 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (Thatcher MSS) |
Industry: Blackwell and Wybrew minute ("Health of Manufacturing Industry") ["We have been uneasy with the Treasury's recent hand-writing condemnation of weak British management conceding unjustified wage increases and impairing competitiveness"] [released 2017] |
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87 Jan 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Media: Press Digest for MT (Labour attack on government, Kinnock pledges) [released 2017] |
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87 Jan 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Economic Policy: No.10 note to MT (Dinner with the Chancellor) [Lawson invites MT] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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87 Jan 9 Fr |
Declassified documents |
Major |
Archive (TNA) |
Monetary Policy: David Norgorve minute to Lawson PS ("The Reserves") [MT hopes to resist requests from EMS members] [declassified Jul 2016] |
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