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PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Kohl; draft Treaty on Political Cooperation; restrictions on US steel imports; trade imbalance with Japan; draft 1986 EC Budget; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [“Plenary session of the Anglo-German summit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: CAP reform”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chancellor Kohl) [Anglo-German summit: tête-à-tête] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prime Minister Willoch of Norway) [Norway internal, acid rain, East-West relations, participation in SDI research, EFTA, European Community] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Hurd letter to John MacGregor (“BBC accounts”) [will urge the BBC to change “misleading” accounting practice] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Government’s economic policy assessment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for Chequers visit with Bud McFarlane) [McFarlane’s read out on the summit; “how much longer he can stand the pace is open to question”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Tom King PS briefing for MT (“EC Heads of Government Meeting at Luxembourg - 1 December”) [possible meeting with Dr. FitzGerald] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“VAT Registration Threshold Infraction Proceedings”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“European Council: Amendment to Monetary Provisions of the Treaty of Rome”) [form of words to make clear UK opposition to common currency and Central Bank] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Prime Minister Santer of Luxembourg letter to MT (European Council) [tensions over monetary issues in advance of next Meeting: Santer seeking compromise; UK taking firm stance] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [MT & Hurd differing views over focus of MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Hungary: Ingham letter to State Secretary of Hungary (invitation to visit to Hungary) [courtesy letter following General Secretary Kádár's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to President Cossiga (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Tom King) ["...possible steps to influence majority opinion in Northern Ireland towards a more favourable... view of the Anglo-Irish Agreement"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (Irish role in Northern Ireland under the Anglo-Irish Agreement) [lines to take for MT, reflecting historical comments by Hurd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw ("Social Services Select Committee Follow-up Report on Medical Education") ["... critical of the Government for failing to achieve the changes it had recommended"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO minute to No.10 ("Falklands at the UNGA: Messages from the Prime Minister") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 1183 to FCO (0300Z) ("Falklands at UNGA 40") [breakdown of voting on the unamended Argentine draft resolution] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Policy Work and the FMI") [implementation of value for money principles] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting with Iraqi Minister of Trade") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute to MT ("EC Budget Council, 26-27 November") [report & Parliamentary Written Answer summarising unsatisfactory outcome] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Intergovernmental Conference") ["watering down of Article 1" regarding joint European foreign policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Norgrove minute to MT ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [comments on Armstrong's report; MT annotation: 'We must tackle this while there is still time'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics Supplement”) [miners' strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (US/Soviet Summit: UN meeting to discuss outcomes) [cover note for background papers; lines to take] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: John Stanley PS letter to No.10 (Soviet ballistic missile defence activity) [MoD paper] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CPSU New Party Programme") ["should succeed in sending you to sleep!" - Charles Powell; text & FCO minute attached, analyzing contrast between latest edition & previous edition published in 1961] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 letter to Fowler PS ("Joint DHSS/DE Study of Local Office Networks") [MT pushes for her stipulations regarding oversight and handling of the review to be adhered to, despite apparent prevarication on part of DHSS] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Trade Unions: Clarke minute to Lawson (“Strikes in essential services”) [Clarke’s position on NHS no-strike agreement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 34th (Parliamentary Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Social Security Review) [Ulster by-elections; Fowler review approved] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Militant) [“Kinnock says Militant Tendency is a maggot in the body of the Labour Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan minute to MT (“Application of US anti-trust law to international civil aviation”) [“the proposed flotation in the United States is likely to make BA an easy target for American contingency fee lawyers”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Unemployment Benefit and Sunday Trading”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Order Bill: Maximum Penalty for Riot”) [MT opposes reduction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [budget: a new purchase scheme proposal] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT message to Lubbers (“Organisation of European Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“European Council”) [includes speaking notes, documents from presidency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Athens telegram to FCO (“Papandreou at the Summit”) [“The Greek economy is in a mess. His austerity measures are unpopular”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO (“Visit to Luxembourg by the Secretary of State: 29 November”) [meeting to discuss issues for forthcoming European Council summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy/European Council”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Bids for Unipart and Austin Rover") ["If both Ford for ARG and GM for LR-L are succssful, then BL could be history by the middle of 1986. The downside is the political difficulty... and... debt which could cost the contingency reserve £400m"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL privatisation - GM/Land Rover-Leyland") ["While we should press GM to increase their offer... if the businesses are not sold then losses will continue and borrowings mount. The equity injection will score against PSBR but this is little to pay compared to the long term savings..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Prime Minister Craxi (Anglo-Irish Agreement) [courtesy letter of thanks for his congratulations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Taoiseach") [speaking note: Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Reverend Ian Paisley MP (resignation from the House of Commons) ["My reason for this action is that I believe the Anglo/Irish Agreement is an Act of Treachery to the people of Ulster, a surrender to the IRA and Dublin, and destruction of the Union"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King PS letter to No.10 (Presbyterian & Methodist Churches in Ireland request to meet with MT) [to discuss the Anglo/Irish Agreement; MT advised by TK to agree to meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Joining the EMS") [Labour letter to Financial Times on effect of bilateral trade positions on bilateral exchange rates: counter-argument] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MT message to UN Heads of Government ("Falklands at the UN General Assembly") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Dr. Julius Nyerere (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting/Nassau Accord; Eminent Persons Group; resignation from Presidency of Tanzania] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Hassan Ali, Iraqi Minister of Trade-Channon) ["Prime Minister's Meeting with the Iraqi Minister of Trade": trade relations, Iran-Iraq War, Arab-Israeli conflict, British prisoners in Iraq] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Heseltine minute to MT ("Commercial Management of the Royal Dockyards - Management Bid") [details & significance of bid; proposed handling; recommendation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("Future of the Top Salaries Review Body") [supports Policy Unit's proposed alternative to Lawson's approach; MT not convinced] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: David Norgrove minute to MT ("Future of the Top Salaries Review Body") [summary of various views; Lawson's proposals & their disadvantages] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Howe ("Inter-Governmental Conference") [revisions to draft Treaty on Political Cooperation: restricting the scope of Article 1] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("IGC: Internal Market - Possible Amendment to Article 99 EEC") [tax harmonisation: MT & Lawson opposed to amendment; Howe prepared to concede to it, for sake of succesful outcome to InterGovernmental Conference] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office letter to No.10 (Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike) [report errata] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Lord President's Office letter to No.10 ("Second Report on Lessons of the Miners' Strike") [endorses Armstrong's conclusion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to MacGregor ("Redundancy Terms of Mineworkers") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: UKE Moscow telegram 1551 to FCO (0900Z) ("Gorbachev's Speech to the Supreme Soviet") [details & analysis] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Soviet Summit") [MT dismisses FCO's proposed draft message to Gorbachev regarding outcomes; "I will try to draft another if time permits"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Draft Social Security White Paper") [comments on draft] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (Handsworth riot) [MT: "The Handsworth report is VERY worrying indeed"] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Lord Hailsham minute for Whitelaw (“Misuse of Drugs Bill: Disclosure of Inland Revenue Information”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: UKHC Ottawa letter to Howe (“Expo ‘86 : British Participation”) [the commercial background, representation at the British Day, participation by the Armed Services] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to Lord Young (training loans proposals) [“unfortunate that the Banks have proved so reluctant to participate in this Scheme”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Hurd letter to Biffen (“Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill”) [Government objections to the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 briefing (“Mr. Arthur Burns”) [MT “very concerned about the size of the US budget deficit”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: N0.10 minute to MT (“Visits by Secretary Shultz and Secretary Weinberger”) [possible meetings with each] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Richard Luce minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [part of broader management reforms to improve efficiency] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“too early to draw general conclusions about the operation and effects of bonus arrangements”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Michael Heseltine minute to Lord Weinstock (“Committee of Public Accounts - Torpedo Report”) [“The MoD has supported fully and promoted both export sales and collaboration”] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Public Order Bill: Maximum Penalty for Riot”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: John MacGregor minute to Kenneth Baker (“Local Authority Contracting Out”) [possibility of limited interim measures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute to MT (“SDI”) [McFarlane told Carrington SDI "was not going to last"; has sometimes hinted at "private scepticism about the SDI" before] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council letter to No.10 (House of Bishops of the Church of Ireland request to meet with the Prime Minister) [to discuss the Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Canada: The Fraser Institute letter to No.10 (invitation for MT to address a Fraser Institute gathering during her visit to Vancouver) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“Running Costs”) [“cannot accept that the Ministry of Defence should be exempt from the Cabinet decision”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 1 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Key points for the European Council”) [core UK objectives] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“US/Soviet Summit”) [MT on proposed draft to Gorbachev: “not enough new to say of substance at present to warrant a message”] [released Dec 2015]
Text 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: John MacGregor minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker briefing for MT ("The Sainsbury Group") [review of progress and future priorities for the Group] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Norgrove minute for Michael Alison (Widdicombe Inquiry into the conduct of local authority business) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 4th ("Draft Green Paper") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 7 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapter 6] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 8 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapter 2] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: FCO letter to No.10 ("Call on the Prime Minister by Mr Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister: 11am, 4 December") [briefing for MT: UK-Iraqi relations and trade, Iran-Iraq War and UN initiatives, British prisoners in Iraq, defence sales] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("Ford/Austin Rover ("Maverick")") ["...although it raises some very difficult questions for us, the Ford approach offers the only realistic early opportunity for achieving our privatisation objectives"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Keith Joseph minute for Norman Fowler (“AIDS”) [the funding of epidemiological research] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: John Moore minute for David Mellor (“Misuse of Drugs Bill: Disclosure of Inland Revenue Information”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Draft Declaration on East-West Relations”) [“The text is better with the passages in square brackets included, but we could live without them”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley PS letter to No.10 (“Economic regulation of airports”) [MT keen to maximise BAA scope for profitability] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (Public Order Bill: penalty for riot) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: MacGregor and Richard Luce letter to MT (“Consultancy, Inspection and Review Services in Government Departments: Implementation Report”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Howe minute to Hurd (“Entry clearance for Bangladeshis”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
Text 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Press Conference”) [objectives achieved at European Council meeting] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting on BL") [GM bid for Land Rover-Leyland; Ford bid for Austin Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant (Scotland)") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 minute to MT (Michael Heseltine) [denied access to restricted circulation E(LF) papers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: John Patten letter to MacGregor (British Waterways Board) [remuneration of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and members of the Board] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water metering") [No.10: "The Prime Minister strongly disagrees with the proposed approach"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Younger minute to Howe ("Falkland Islands Transport Project") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("Visit of Lord Barber") [report on meeting with President Botha and Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary letter to Heseltine (‘Westland’) [‘disturbed’ to hear of NAD document; seeks its urgent withdrawal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [abandon NAD recommendation, which would kill Sikorsky deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [European Council, pensions, personal taxation, Banking White Paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tom King letter to Lord Young (“Training Loans”) [“In Northern Ireland we shall be taking a keen interest in your… 3-year pilot”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Teachers’ Pay”) [proposals for public enquiry & ending teachers’ strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Public Order Bill”) [maximum penalty for riot] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (European Union) EC: Luxembourg European Council (Presidency Conclusions)
Text 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg Council: Italian Reactions”) [“unanimous disappointment”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Copenhagen telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg Council: IGC”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Luxembourg telegram to FCO (“European Council, Luxembourg 2/3 December 1985”) [“a gruelling marathon… all our key objectives were secured”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“European Council: first French reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“European Council: Delors press conference”) [“regrets that his proposal on powers for the European Parliament did not find favour”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO (“VAT Small Trader Exemption”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s Crime Prevention Seminar”) [Hurd concerned that time scheduled for event will be insufficient] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7: Armstrong minute for Powell (“Economic Summit 1986”) [preparatory meeting report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Baker minute to MT ("Disposal of radioactive waste") [Ministerial debate over options; MT concerns about public enquiry; Baker concern that "...an announcement that the identification of sites had been delayed indefinitely would destroy the credibility of our policy..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lawson, Peter Morrison) ["BL privatisation": "...the main issue was the treatment of debt relating to LRL..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Younger letter to Kenneth Baker ("Sale of local authority mortgages") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Chancellor of the Exchequer") ["Nigel Lawson would like a private chat"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iraq: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister) [Iran-Iraq War and UN initiatives, British prisoners in Iraq] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile at the UN") [MT agrees to UK vote to support UN resolution criticising human rights abuses, but laments lack of consistency] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Downing Street: No.10 Social Secretary internal minute to colleagues ("Dinner on Wednesday, 10 December") [250th anniversary of PM's residence: arrangements] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland’) [defends European approach] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [choices before ministerial meeting tomorrow] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Policy Unit minute for Charles Powell (‘Westland’) [“Heseltine’s shotgun marriage of the European helicopter industry echoes Harold Wilson’s … of the motor industry”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office briefing for meeting (‘Westlands’) [background] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Douglas Hurd-David Mellor) [Mr. Mellor’s visit to Pakistan] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Call on Shevardnadze”) [family reunification cases, visit to London] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Baker letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [“aim should be to ensure that any… regulations are strictly necessary”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd, Whitelaw, Mellor) [“Maximum penalty for riot”] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg European Council: German Press Reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg European Council: Dutch press reactions”) [“a personal victory for Mrs Thatcher”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg European Council: Kohl’s Statement to the Bundestag”) [“EMS… a half-way station on the way to European union”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("E(LF)(85)19: Local Authority capital expenditure control") ["...how the present system of capital control on net expenditure might be modified..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local Authority capital expenditure controls") ["...implications for a reformed system... of the assurances given in the past to local authorities about use of capital receipts..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa: freehold rights") ["If asked about this development you may wish to comment that we welcome the intention to allow black home owners to acquire freehold rights"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS minute to Hurd PS ("Possible Visit to Paris by Mr Hurd") [arrangements, controversy around Joxe] [declassified Feb 2019]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to Ridley ("CFL: Treaty") [Channel Fixed Link: request for FCO to be represented on Intergovernmental Commission; commercial & competition policy] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [papers for meeting; urges MT reject NADs recommendation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland Helicopters’) [BAe wish to join European consortium offer for Westland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell letter to DTI (‘Westlands’) [commissions joint DTI-MOD paper for meeting tomorrow] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 35th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Prime Minister Willoch of Norway letter to MT (overview of the acid rain problem in Norway) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“David Dimbleby Interview with Lord Scarman and Geoffrey Dear on ‘This Week, Next Week’, BBC 1 on 24 November”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) National Health: Norman Fowler minute for Keith Joseph (“AIDS”) [the funding of epidemiological research] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Richard Luce minute for MT (“Commercial Management of the Royal Dockyards - Management Bid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: UKE Washington telegram 3345 to FCO (1645Z) (“Shultz’s visit to Europe next week”) [Shultz “satisfied that the alliance is in pretty good shape after the Geneva summit, and that trade problems between the community and the US manageable”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Heseltine letter to John MacGregor (“MOD Running Costs”) [“This is not simply a matter of accounting practice: it is a crucial issue… for the support of our defence capabilities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Walker letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Hurd letter to Lord Young (concordat on inter-departmental arrangements on deregulation) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Luxembourg Council: further Italian press reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Addison (“Crime Prevention Seminar”) [advice and information for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: City University postgraduate students letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [request to attend MT-chaired event as observers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Action Committee for Europe") ["...to remind [MT/Howe] before the Luxembourg European Council of the Committee's priorities"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office letter to Baker PS ("The Financing and Administration of Land Drainage Prevention of Flooding, and Coast Protection in England and Wales") ["...issues arising from the Green Paper...": administrative support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 Policy Unit minute: Monckton to Owen ("Short, fat ships: warning") [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Eminent Persons Group: Possibility of the Prime Minister Seeing General Obasanjo") ["keen to have a private talk with [MT]... [is] in a position to play a key role in the Group"; MT agrees] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) New Zealand: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Farewell Call by the New Zealand High Commissioner on the Prime Minister") [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Whitelaw minute for MT (‘Westland ’) [cannot attend meeting; allow Westland board to make up its own mind] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Walters minute for No.10 (present fiscal and monetary conditions) [markets see fiscal policy as “suspiciously loose”; monetary conditions “clearly rather tight”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: John MacGregor letter to Lord Young (“Training Loans”) [highlights issues of concern but supportive in principle] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Biffen letter to Hurd (“Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill”) [agrees with opposing the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Wicks (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [staff attitudes “are somewhat negative”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [“excellent opportunity to improve performance… is in danger of being wasted”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Conclusions of ‘H’ committee on 3 December”) [liquor licensing laws and the NHS] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Home Secretary’s minutes: 1. The Strategic View of Crime 2. Exclusion Orders”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Brittan letter to Lord Young (new arrangements for implementing the deregulation initiative) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ray Whitney letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to PS (“Home Secretary’s minutes: 1. The Strategic View of Crime (3 December) 2. Exclusion Orders (4 December)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Armstrong minute to MT ("Subversion in Public Life") [sends report by interdepartmental group, focussed on the civil service] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Armstrong minute to MT ("Subversion in Public Life") [actions taken; special check on subversives in higher ranks - "none of them at these levels are active troublemakers"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [Kenneth Baker’s Green Paper: main elements and comments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Walters minute to No.10 ("some thoughts on the present fiscal and monetary conditions") [ease monetary policy in 1986, tightening control of public spending] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Draft White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [still sounds complacent; MT disagrees] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 7 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 9 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapters 1-5, annexes C & G, chapters on Wales and Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [“The struggle has continued over the weekend” attaches DTI-MOD papers for meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 8 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: DTI record of conversation (“Telephone conversation between Sir Brian Hayes & Sir Raymond Lygo”) [BAe terms for investing in Westland] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to R.O. Miles (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [letter of thanks for hospitality] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to D.H.A. Hannay (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [“a fairly trying occasion but I think we came out of it in good shape”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Jacques Santer of Luxembourg (European Council meeting in Luxembourg) [thanks for “effective and persistent Chairmanship”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram to FCO (“Italy/EC”) [“Italian opposition to the outcome of the Luxembourg Council is weakening”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lord Young minute to MT ("The Sainsbury Group") ["...a very valuable source of ideas and experience on planning..."; recommends the Government continue to utilise it] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Sainsbury Group") ["Tomorrow's meeting takes place at your suggestion... ensuring that the... original proposals are being followed up... [and] pressing DOE Ministers... to speed up and simplify the planning process"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Michael Howard briefing for MT ("Planning policy") [meeting with Sainsbury Group on 10 December - "...a couple of points which I should like to raise..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting on 10 December with Sir John Sainsbury's Group") [analysis of Sainsbury proposals to date and idenitification of priority issues for the Group to address in future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Kenneth Baker ("Local governement finance: specific grants") [Lawson-chaired working group interim report on "...the role and extent of specific grants in funding local authority services..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils") ["...now evidence of concerted efforts to spend as much as possible... before abolition... In the case of the GLC... giving money to organisations... involved in perpetuating the policies of the GLC... we must introduce legislation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; recent landmine explosions in Northern Transvaal] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cyprus: UKHC Nicosia telegram 390 to FCO (2000Z) ("Greek Cypriot General Elections") [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Hurd letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link") ["security, policing, frontier control and jurisdictional questions"; representation on Intergovernmental Commission] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link: Compensation") [distinction between cancellation for political & for defence reasons] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link - Hobson's Choice?") [MT rejects advice that she propose a voluntary merger between two of the bids] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: UKMIS Geneva telegram 453 to FCO (1730Z) ("OPEC Ministerial Meeting (7-9 December)") [report: OPEC to form special committee aimed at defending fair shares of the market for OPEC producers] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland’) [relative merits of proposals; no MOD market for Blackhawks] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (‘Westland’) [Heseltine minute goes against agreement; government should not impose its own judgment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan-Mayhew minute for MT (‘Fraud’) [policies & institutions to combat] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Douglas Hurd minute for Whitelaw (“Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4324 to FCO (2023Z) (“ECOFIN Council: 9 December 1985) [Annual Economic Report] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MOD minute for No.10 (“Royal Dockyards”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tebbit letter to MT (Cental Office staffing) [Michael Dobbs to be Chief of Staff; drop Hal Miller as Vice-Chairman; Chris Lawson to assist Harvey Thomas] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Lord Young letter to Hurd (“Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Bill”) [agrees with opposing the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: FCO minute to No.10 (“Mr McFarlane’s Briefing to the Prime Minister 23 November: SDI”) [McFarlane cited “the threat from Soviet mobile mirved systems as a prime justification for the SDI”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Post Geneva summit US/Soviet Activity”) [appointment of US ambassador, Reagan message on human rights] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Tom King minute to MT (“Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower and Departmental Running Costs”) [minor upward adjustment in interim targets] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Civil Service Numbers”) [latest figures; “overall reduction [of] 18.6 per cent since the Government took office”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Wicks letter to Armstrong ("Subversion in Public Life") [MT response to interdepartmental report - widen study to include local government, education, NHS; use dismissals; disquieted to learn some higher officials involved] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Shridath Ramphal message to Commonwealth Heads of Government (Consultative Group on International Monetary and Financial Issues) [suggested next meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Giles Shaw letter to MT (“Football Hooliganism”) [police powers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Michael Jopling letter to Lord Young (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking Supervision White Paper: Chancellor’s Foreword”) [MT approves Lawson's personal draft] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS minute to Treasury (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kenneth Baker, Lord Young, David Trippier, Michael Howard, Sir John Sainsbury & colleagues) ["Planning: the Sainsbury Group"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Biffen, Mayhew, MacGregor, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and Metropolitan County Councils"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: MacGregor letter to Baker ("Water charges and investment") ["I am not happy with your letter to me dated 2 December proposing that John Patten should look forward to "a more favourable trend" in future water charges..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 5th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor") [TSRB possibly; the markets, monetary policy] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 letter to Ministry of Defence ("Royal College of Defence Studies") [MT unimpressed on her visit (thought it bland, lethargic, complacent, smug); calls for review of College's future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("The Oil Market") [OPEC members divided over strategy; Saudi Arabia's position; conclusions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Cuckney) [rival bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Brittan (“Westland Helicopters”) [persuade company to release more information to European consortium] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: John Wakeham note for Nigel [Wicks] (talk with Heseltine) [Heseltine thinks meeting on Friday a “Constitutional Necessity”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for Norgrove (“Financial Services Bill: Indemnity for designated agencies”) [Brittan & Hailsham at odds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 letter to Peter Brooke PS (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“unattractive options for how the United Kingdom should vote”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: UKDEL IMF telegram to FCO (“IMF: Managing Director’s One Day Visit to London - 3 February”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Wicks minute (“Progress Chasing”) [MT requests review of arrangements for “progress chasing of ourstanding letters, remits to departments, actions, etc”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Shultz) [Reagan-Gorbachev arms control talks: movement on Arab/Israel conflict] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Secretary of State for Social Services minute to MT (“Local Government Finance”) [domestic rates reform] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison to MT (dinner celebrating 250th anniversary of No.10) [her speech “better, but not too much better than the Queen’s”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Follow-up to the European Council: possible statement on Geneva Summit & East/West”) [No.10 welcomes decision not to issue statement] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [policy advice for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 minute: Wicks to Powell ("State Visit of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany") [Kohl keen to accompany President Weizsäcker] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding") [consideration of measures to curb and control spending] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen minute to MT ("Lobbyists") ["... motion to confirm and clarify the responsibilities of Members with regard to the registration in the Register of Members' interests, and declaration, of their paid activities as Parliamentary 'advisers' and 'consultants'] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to Younger ("Falkland Islands Transport Project") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: MOD minute to No.10 ("Lt Sethia: Production of Diary") ["we should take steps to prevent disclosure of passages in the diary (...) on grounds of public interest immunity"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Colombo telegram to FCO ("Sri Lanka/UNGA Falklands Vote") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: UKE Paris telegram 1111 to FCO (1224Z) ("Channel Fixed Link") [arrangements for MT/Mitterrand meeting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram 2800 to FCO (1030Z) ("Visit of Ji Pengfei: Talks: Plenary Session") [Governor of Hong Kong record of conversation with Chinese Head of Hong Kong & Macau Affairs Office] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Hong Kong Government telegram 2804 to FCO (2305Z) ("Visit of Ji Pengfei: Second Meeting") [Governor of Hong Kong record of conversation with Chinese Head of Hong Kong & Macau Affairs Office] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Cabinet Office briefing for meeting (“Westlands E(A)(85)72”) [background] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to French, German & Italian Defence Ministers (“Future of the European Helicopter Industry”) [must finalise European bid by Friday; “the appropriate committee of the cabinet meets at 3pm that day”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Lawson letter to Brittan (“Financial Services Bill: Civil Liability of Designated Agencies & Competent Authorities”) [“case finely balanced”, embarrassing after JMB, be prepared to drop immunity clauses] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe PS minute to No.10 (“European Council: Follow Up”) [draft Single Act preamble] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKDEL Strasbourg telegram 264 to FCO (0900Z) (“European Parliament: Intergovernmental Conference”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: MT letter to Professor Karl Carstens (Inter-Governmental conference) [Action Committee for Europe conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Howe minute to Peter Brooke (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (A New Pollution Inspectorate) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“Message to Mr. Gorbachev”) [Howe still wants to send message] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (“ US/Soviet Arms Control Talks”) [“Cautious assessment of prospects for INF in next round at Geneva”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: Shultz letter to MT (resumed talks with Soviet Union) [“we see eye-to-eye on almost all of the busy international agenda ahead”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Green Paper on Local Finance”) [Committee meeting:draft document] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Lawson (“Johnson Matthey Bankers Briefing”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland PS (“White Paper on Banking Supervision”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: David Trippier letter to MT (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("France: economic report for November 1985") ["The improvement of the economy, evident since the beginning of the autumn, continues..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("The French political scene: anxieties and ambitions") ["[The Right] are uncertain of holding on to their apparent [election campaign] lead, and torn by differences of personalities and policies."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [Government & GM haggling over price] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [financial strategies for closing the deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Annual Review of Government funded R & D 1985") [draft Written PQ answer] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 6th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [revisions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 minute to MOD ("Lieutenant Sethia: Production of Diary") [MT agrees to take steps to prevent disclosure of passages on the grounds of public interest immunity] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Eminent Persons Group") [lines to take on discussion of Group's diplomatic strategy; lines to take on discussion of Nigeria with General Obasanjo] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mayhew minute to MT ("Crown Prosecution Service") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: MT letter to Chair of the Review Body on Armed Forces Pay (Review Body's recommendations on London Weighting for the Armed Forces from 1 April 1985) ["the Government have decided to implement... in full"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: Peter Walker minute to MT ("Oil Prices") [background to slide in oil prices & warning of probably demands from OPEC/Saudi Arabia for UK to cut prices; recommendation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wiggins minute for Unwin (‘Westlands’) [explains no EA meeting firmed up for Friday] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [GEC support] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Woerner phone call) [German reservations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan letter to Cuckney (deadline for European consortium) [if no “viable package” by 4pm Friday 13 Dec HMG will reject NAD recommendation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 36th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs, Economic Affairs) [Heseltine raises Westland without notice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw minute to MT (“The teachers’ pay dispute”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Teachers’ pay (England and Wales)”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) US: MT letter to Shultz (discussions with the Soviet Union) [“we must keep in close touch”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Running Businesses in Government: The Next Steps Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Transport”) [“The pressure must be to reduce costs while maintaining or improving services”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (congratulations on her wedding anniversary) [“you are a great and ‘dynamic duo’”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Violence”) [MT to chair seminar on crime prevention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Biffen, Tebbit, MacGregor, Mayhew, Baker, Wakeham) ["Abolition of the GLC and MCCs: forward funding"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Rate Support Grant settlement 1986/87) [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker letter to Wakeham ("Local authority capital expenditure") ["...proposals... in the Green Paper on Local Government Finance..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 3402 to FCO (2240Z) ("Argentina/Falklands") [Alfonsin "the best leader Argentina was likely to produce and he deserved support"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Lesotho relations") [report on alleged ANC plans to launch armed attacks from Lesotho] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Commonwealth Secretary-General Ramphal (Group of Eminent Persons) ["I was very pleased... to meet the members this morning and was greatly encouraged... I have already sent a message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) [reform in S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Pretoria ("Eminent Persons Group") [report on first meeting & meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("History of the Special Operations Executive in Scandanavia") [publication of book by Dr. Charles Cruickshank] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Greece: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Ex-King Constantine's Son") [Prince Paul's attendance at Sandhurst likely to provoke negative response from Greece] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez letter for MT (Spanish accession to the EEC) [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Heseltine letter to Ridley ("Channel Fixed Link") [MoD representation on Intergovernmental Commission; compensation] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL)") [venues for MT/Mitterrand meetings to announce choice of project & sign Treaty] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link") [request for draft speech & historical background research in preparation for announcement of project] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Channel Fixed Link: Possible Conflicts of Interest") [guidance for officials assessing project proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: UKE Paris telegram 1121 to FCO (1717Z) ("Channel Fixed Link") [French media report on UK/French companies joint bid] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter to Cuckney (European offer) [promises six extra Sea King orders & Europe only purchasing] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wiggins minute for Unwin (‘Westlands’) [“today’s instalment”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westland’) [“The Ministry of Defence’s game-plan today”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“British Aerospace consortium”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [phone conversation with Cuckney] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [Westland board rejects European offer at 3pm] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for Powell (‘Westlands’) [information from Whitmore] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (import declaration requirement for British sheepmeat) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Drugs: Lord Hailsham minute for Whitelaw (“Confiscation of the Proceeds of Drug Trafficking”) [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 minute for MT (“Dinner on Sunday”) [briefing from Norgrove & Griffiths] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: Heseltine minute for Richard Luce (“Devonport Dockyard - Management Bid”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“The Monday Morning Meeting”) [contacts with ministers: suggests MT “emphasise the importance which you attach to maintaining the closest possible contacts”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: Charles Powell note to FCO (“United States position on nuclear arms control and SDI”) [MT “suspects that the United States might not ultimately insist on a 50 percent cut in throw weight, a ban on the upgrading of the SS-18 or a ban on Soviet GCLMs”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cold War: UKDEL NATO telegram to FCO (1985 NATO communique) [“Our strategy of deterrence has proved its worth in preserving peace, and remains fully valid”] [released Dec 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to John MacGregor (“Laker Class Actions Settlement: Claims by Government Departments”) [“likely to form a substantial category of claimant”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the Cable Authority) [proposals to address slow progress] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Fee Earning Businesses In Government”) [question of “whether control of gross running costs should continue to apply for fee earning activities”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT: “We must make it a success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform”) [the forthcoming Cabinet discussion] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Sun article on Neil Kinnock) [“He is, apparently, really feeling under pressure”] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) [report on her meeting with the Group; "they particularly asked me to to urge you to let them visit South Africa in January"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (reform in South Africa) [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; reform process/dialogue; policy towards Zimbabwe over recent landmine explosions ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 14 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (South African DFA) South Africa: MT to President P.W. Botha (urges he meet Eminent Persons Group) [declassified ?2005]
Text 85 Dec 15 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Iran: UKE Riyadh telegram 321 to FCO (o600Z) ("Visit by Iranian Foreign Minister") [report; Saudis & Iran unable to see eye-to-eye on Iran/Iraq war] [released Jul 2018]
Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Wicks minute for MT ("Broad-Beamed Warship Design: Court Case Involving the Navy") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Legal Procedure: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (servicemen in Cyprus charged under the Official Secrets Act: allegations of interference with trial jury) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Edwards PS letter to Biffen PS ("Welsh Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87") [draft statement to Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Lynda Chalker letter to Tony Banks MP (taxicard scheme) [addressing her comments made in Parliament on proposed GLC revisions to the scheme and its cost-effectiveness] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 minute to MT ("Broad-beamed warship design: court case involving the Navy") [No.10 Policy Unit dossier of papers; MT interest] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 10 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Chapter 9] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Yugoslavia: MOD minute to No.10 (Visit to London by the Yugoslav Minister of Defence) [MT will not be attending] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Australia: UKHC Canberra telegram 935 to FCO (0300Z) ("Appointment of new Governor of Victoria") [McCaughey's credentials] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) South Africa: State Department memorandum for NSC (“South Africa: Looking Ahead”) [declassified 1999]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Armstrong minute for Wicks (‘Westlands’) [investigates Heseltine claim that cabinet committee meeting was cancelled] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Brittan minute for MT (Westland) [seeks & receives approval from MT to make HC statement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MOD letter to DTI (“Westland: Statement to the House”) [seeks amendments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Armstrong minute to No.10 (MT’s trip to Vancouver: possible transport options) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Brooke minute for MT (“EC Budget Council, 11 December”) [“highly unsatisfactory” failure to agree 1986 budget] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Baker (“Local Authority Capital Overspend 1985-86”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“1986 Public Expenditure White Paper”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Economic policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, MacGregor, Middleton, Burns dinner) [MT expresses “serious concern at the current stance of policy … too loose … risked higher inflation”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (Croydon pilot scheme on educational assessment) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Cable Authority letter to Kenneth Baker (financial ideas) [development and allowances, enterprise zones] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Questions of Procedure for Ministers”) [Parliamentary sub-committee unprecedented request for Cabinet paper] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to Private Secretaries (“Performance Bonus Experiment”) [MT “attaches great importance to [its] success”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Brittan letter to Kenneth Clarke (“Sex Discrimination and Shops Bills”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Kenneth Clarke letter to Brittan (“Deregulation”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Public Bodies 1985”) [key statistics] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Chairman of the National Consumer Council letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [informal briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ridley letter to Brittan ("Arthur Andersen and Co") [LRT contract not to be renewed in light of Andersen's involvement in failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd; other firms to be invited to tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Kenneth Baker letter to Ridley ("Rate Support Grant Settlement 1986/87 Presentation of the Joint Boards' Precepts") ["One of the key points we must get across is the irresponsible way the metropolitan county councils have used balances and financial reserves to keep their precepts down in 1985/86, and hence to conceal the true costs of their policies from the ratepayers"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 letter to Department of Defence ("Broad-beamed warship design") [MT wants Heseltine to give the matter his personal attention] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Future Legislation: 1986/87 and 1987/88 Sessions") ["You will see that we are bidding for only two major programme Bills in 1986/87... Copyright... [and] Consumer Goods and Services..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Wicks minute for MT (bilaterals with cabinet colleagues) [proposed regular one-on-one meetings with selected colleagues; MT agrees] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Howe minute to MT ("Falkland Islands: Fisheries") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("South Africa/Zimbabwe") [FCO press statement; UK message to Mugabe; S.African/Zimbabwean military liaison over latest incident] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Land Mine attack in South Africa") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Channel Fixed Link: Commercially Sensitive Aspects of the Assessment") [draft PQ on Government's position] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Hong Kong: Howe minute to Biffen ("Hong Kong: White Paper on the Nationality Provisions of the Hong Kong Act 1985") [scheduling of debates in Parliament] [released Jul 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Egypt: Charles Powell minute to MT ("President Mubarak") [MT thinks it "unwise" to decline offer to meet with Mubarak while he is in Europe, but ultimately accepts Howe's/Charles Powell's advice] [released Dec 2018]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Chief Secretary minute for MT (Westland) [“the European solution would mean less competition and therefore increased costs”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: MT letter to Sir John Cuckney (reply to his letter of 13 Dec) [refers him to Brittan statement 16 December] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (‘Fraud’) [ministerial meeting tomorrow] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Roskill Report’) [summary & comment] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4460 to FCO (1721Z) (“IGC: Brussels 16/17 December”) [Inter-Governmental conference] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram 4458 to FCO (1715Z) (“Foreign Affairs Council: 17 December 1985”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT (“Bilateral with the Chancellor”) [appointments for the Court of the Bank of England] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“The teachers’ pay disputes: minute from the Lord President dated 12 December”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT (“Teacher’s pay”) [pressure for enquiry] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Alison note to MT (Michael Heseltine) [“he is not looking for an occasion to resign, & hopes - I judge - that he will not be sacked!”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Nick Ridley letter to Howe (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [control of anti-competitive behaviour] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention”) [material for MT-chaired seminar] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("Kohl/Mitterrand meeting") ["...the press again underlines the 'emptiness' of present Franco-German relations..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Brittan PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Government reply to the Report for House of Lords select committee on overseas trade") ["...causes and implications of the deficit on the... [UK]'s balance of trade in manufactures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Biffen letter to Terence Higgins MP (Government reply to the First Report from the Liaison Committee (Session 1984-85) on the Select Committee system) ["... the new Departmentally-related select committees set up in 1979 have now established themselves as a major, successful Parliamentary reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 11 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex J] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Cabinet Secretary minute to No.10 ("Departmental Responsibility for Heritage") [neither Office of Arts and Libraries nor DOE now want change; MT: "Leave well alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Howe minute to MacGregor ("Channel Fixed Link (CFL): A Possible EIB Loan") [European Investment Bank: "we should scrutinise carefully the guarantee arrangements which are proposed"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Presentation of Government Actions") [approval of letter to issue from Cabinet Office to Private Secretaries outlining measures for improvement] [released Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Japan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call by Foreign Minister of Japan: 21 January 1986") [Howe recommends MT meet with Shintaro Abe] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (Heseltine briefing press) [information from “my friend in the MOD”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 record of conversation (‘Fraud’) [MT, Brittan, Havers] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1067 to FCO (1430Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels: Italian Press reaction”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Community Affairs”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the Education Committee (teachers’ pay) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Heseltine (“MOD Running Costs”) [“there is no question of an attack on your block budget”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: John MacGregor letter to Patrick Mayhew (“DPP: Staffing of Fraud Work”) [“It is the quality and experience of staff employed on fraud work which may most need to be tackled”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Michael Heseltine (ultimatum "drafted but not sent") [“In this situation no Minister should use his position to promote one commercial option in preference to another - so long as he remains in Government”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd letter to Whitelaw (Winston Churchill M.P.’s Bill to amend the Obscene Publications Act) [recommended approach to handling of the Bill] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Italy: Powell letter to FCO ("Anglo/Italian Summit") [MT not prepared to accede to Italian requests to arrive the evening before] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Declaration of the Ten on East/West Relations”) [MT concurs with view that statement is vacuous and that FCO should be pressed not to endorse such statements in future] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: John Wheeler MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [advice in advance of MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 briefing for MT (“Crime Prevention Seminar: 8 January”) [arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Manpower: David Trippier PS letter to No.10 (regional employment data) [MT request for evidence to counter ‘bias towards the South East’ claim] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: UKE Moscow to FCO ("Change in Soviet Arms Control Positions") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Policy Unit minute for MT ("Nimrod AEW") [need for an alternative to GEC] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("German political scene") ["...the Coalition... looks far better prepared than the Opposition for the Election Campaign Year 1986. The economy is doing well by any standards."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee on Tuesday 17 December") [radioactive waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Edward du Cann) ["Salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Spain: Spanish Ambassador letter to MT (Prime Minister González letter to Mrs Thatcher) [cover note only] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Ministerial Sub-Committee on Local Government Finance - E(LF) (85) 7th ("Control of Local Authority Capital Expenditure") [also national non-domestic rates, interaction with housing benefit] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Minutes of Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 6th ("Draft Green Paper on Local Government Finance") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Community Charge: Note by secretaries circulated to Official Steering Committee on Local Government Finance Studies - E(LF)(O) (85) 12 ("Draft Green Paper on Local Authority Finance") [draft of Annex F] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Brittan minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [update on progress of negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Draft Cabinet minutes (“Westland plc”) [line discussed & agreed] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Transcript of BBC Nine O’Clock News (Brittan interview) [Powell: “pretty inoffensive, though a technical breach of the ceasefire”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(85) 37th (Parliamentary Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Community Affairs, Home Affairs, Northern Ireland Affairs) [Westland ‘ceasefire’] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Brittan letter to Conservative MPs (Financial Services Bill) [published today - more effective system of regulation] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Law Officers’s Legal Secretary letter to Norgrove (‘Fraud’) [case conference notes on Lloyds] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Jopling PS letter to No.10 (“The Common Agricultural Policy and European Food Surpluses”) [briefing note for Ministers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Bonn telegram 1208 to FCO (1810Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference Brussels, 16/17 December: German reactions”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Privatisation: MacGregor minute for Biffen (“Using Private Enterprise in Government Departments”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) International economic policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“International Financial Scene”) [the major debtor countries] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: John MacGregor letter to Lord Chancellor (“TSRB Evidence: Judicial Salaries”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Pattie PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [no agreement between ITAP and government on forcing access to BT ducts and wires] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Charles Powell note (draft formula for cabinet) [concession to Heseltine on circulation of Westland paper; MT: "Not necessary - SofS did not so request"] [released Jan 2017]
Text 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Mark Carlisle MP PS letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to Hurd (“Prime Minister’s Crime Conference”) [advice in writing owing to prior commitment] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Powell minute for MT (Nimrod AEW: MacGregor's letter to Heseltine) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Legislation of 1986/87 and beyond") [manifesto ideas, with MT responses] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Legislation for 1986-87 and beyond") [thoughts on the legislative programme and Manifesto] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS note to No.10 (European Monetary System) [exchange controls] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to Robert Mugabe (reform and negotiations) [visit to South Africa of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; ANC attacks close to Zimbabwe border - "frankly dismayed... hope that you will continue to use your influence to prevent such attacks"; Mozambique] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa") [Howe proposal for Lord Richardson to act as intermediary between MT & President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute (internal): Cradock to Powell ("Possible South African raid into Lesotho") [report & analysis] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: No.10 minute to Cabinet Secretary ("Departmental Responsibility for the Heritage") [MT believes it best "to leave matters alone"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [proposed deployment of additional battalion, background of PIRA violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison minute to Nigel Wicks (situation in Northern Ireland) [King apprehensive about situation deteriorating, feeling vulnerable and isolated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link") ["ultimate decision is left to the risk investors and the banks backing them... we have to decide now which of the three schemes should go forward to this ultimate market test"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Westland”) [European offer made - “has quite a lot both for the bankers and the shareholders”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Patrick Mayhew minute to MT (Lloyds & Johnson Matthey) [state of investigations] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Home Office (“Roskill Report”) [MT wants close interdepartmental cooperation with Middleton group on fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: Powell minute for MT (“Expo ‘86 : Vancouver”) [“not really worth it for one day”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: UKE Rome telegram 1072 to FCO (1400Z) (“Inter-Governmental Conference in Brussels”) [Andreotti’s statement: Italy at a crossroads] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: MacGregor minute for Younger (“Local Authority Current and Capital Expenditure: Scotland and Wales”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Aerospace: Brittan letter to Nick Ridley (“A bilateral competition regime for UK/US aviation”) [“it will be important to be sensitive to developments in the work of the President’s Task Force on Anti-Trust”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Hurd PS letter to No.10 (statistics on young male offenders) [“extremely disturbing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Rate Reform: Keith Joseph’s letter”) [assessment and suggestions] [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 21 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
Text 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 957 to UKE Dublin (1715Z) ("Chief Constable's Alleged Statement") [wish to assure Irish government of commitment to continuing and developing cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (dinner receipts) [MT eats modestly in the Commons canteen] [released 2015]
Text 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Professor Anthony Bottoms letter to No.10 (crime prevention seminar) [acceptance of invite to MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute for MT ("Chemical Weapons and Challenge Inspection") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Norgrove minute to MOD ("Nimrod AEW") [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Baker minute to MT ("Water Privatisation - White Paper") ["Following consideration in E(A) on 19 November... we now submit a draft... for colleagues' approval] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Spain: MT letter to Marquess of Douro (King Carlos I's State visit to UK: invitation to address Parliament) [MT agrees to Marquess' suggestion] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group: visit to South Africa) ["If not correctly... handled, this initiative could be damaging not only for South Africa but for the whole of the sub-continent"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Peking telegram 328 to DTI (0713Z) ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [discussions with French on negotiating terms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Heseltine PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [could temporary nature of reinforcement allow it to be disguised] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Transport: Ridley minute to MT ("Channel Fixed Link: Assessment Report") [note by UK officials for E(A) committee on 8 January] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Westland: Heseltine letter & minute for MT (‘Westland plc’) [“the Government should indicate, at least informally, that … it would prefer a British/European solution … will not be an easy one for you”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: Wicks minute for MT (“Westland”) [Fanshawe conversation - Heseltine would resign if European offer not accepted; his “humiliation in Cabinet”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Junk Bonds”) [HMT paper on possible implications for UK] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Lord Chancellor letter to John MacGregor (“Evidence to the TSRB”) [Top Salaries Review Body] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“1986 Budget”) [proposals] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Teachers’ pay”) [proposed meeting with teachers] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Lord Hailsham letter to Hurd (“Final report by Popplewell, J.”) [safety and control at sports grounds] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Whitelaw minute for MT (“Local Government Finance”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Eldon Griffiths MP letter to MT (crime prevention seminar) [apologies and briefing for MT-chaired event] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Korea: MT letter to President Chun Doo Hwan (visit to South Korea) [formal acceptance of invitation] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Netherlands: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Speech by the Netherlands Prime Minister on national and EC economic strategy") [summary & analysis] [declassified July 2017]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: Channon minute to MT ("Guangdong Nuclear Project") [pressing need for UK to revise negotiating terms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [can make a start on replacing bombed buildings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (arms shipment) [shipment from the Netherlands to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Westland: David Norgrove minute (‘Westland’) [overt & covert arguments in the Heseltine memorandum] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: Home Office briefing for MT (“Roskill Report”s) [Home Secretary has not yet considered report] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (European School in Luxembourg: inspection reports) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government Machinery: Ridley letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Capital Expenditure Contracts”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Dec 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary

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

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

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

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