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Date: 20 Nov 1985. Document type: Declassified documents.

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Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT Engagement Diary
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) ["Implementation of the Keith Report"; Inland Revenue collection and enforcement powers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Canada: MT message to Peter Lougheed (retirement as Premier of Alberta) [congratulations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Environmental Lunch: Conservation and the Future of the CAP") [arguments against the concern "that a reform of the CAP will have damaging effects on the countryside"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Department of the Environment briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Lunch with Conservationists: 25 November 1985") [key issues; attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Peter Morrison letter to Rifkind (EC non-quota regulations) [money for Hull, Grimsby, Clwyd, Fraserburgh] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Community Affairs") [MT talks with Mitterrand & Santer; InterGovernmental Conference; ECOFIN, 18 Nov; Transport Council, 14-15 Nov; Agriculture Council, 18-19 Nov; upcoming meetings] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Foreign Policy: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's Visit to Brussels, 21 November: President Reagan's Briefing of the NAC") [North Atlantic Council] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: Home Office news release (“The Best Way to Deal with Crime is to Prevent It”) [Hurd address to Standing Conference on Crime Prevention] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Dail Debate: Taoiseach's speech") [summary] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: MT letter to Speaker of the US House of Representatives (Anglo-Irish Agreement) ["I would like to thank you for the statement that you made at your joint press conference with President Reagan..."; US financial & economic assistance for Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 note to MT (RUC enquiry into assault on Secretary of State for Northern Ireland) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Agreement: Parliamentary Debate") [amendments to draft MT speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Treasury briefing for MT ("NICG Dinner with Prime Minister 22 November") [Nationalised Industries Chairmen's Group: privatisation; board appointments; pay & industrial relations; major planning inquiries; local authority rates] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Public spending: John MacGregor minute to George Younger ("Housing Support Grant Increase: Offsetting Savings") [increased spending a result of changed economic assumptions] [declassified Jul 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Social Services: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Social Security Review: Income Related Benefits") ["the essential issue... is whether... it is worth spending another £300 million to reduce the (still very large) number of losers and improve incentives": MacGregor's case vs Fowler's] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Fraud’) [seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: No.10 letter to Treasury (“Junk Bonds”) [to finance takeovers; MT seeks information] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) City: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Goodison (Financial Services Bill) [agrees his stress on fraud; lists action in train] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) City: Hobson note for Griffiths (‘Fraud’) [partial typology of financial fraud] [released 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute for MT (“Law and Order: Brixton and Tottenham Riots”) [rumours about preparation of petrol bombs & Napalm for use against police] [declassified 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Germany: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Anglo-German summit: 27 November”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Training Loans”) [“an excellent idea. They will introduce the public gradually to the idea of loans instead of grants… [but scheme is] poorly designed”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Home Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“Public Order Bill: Incitement to Racial Hatred”) [declassified 2014]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 4th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 5th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit 6th Session [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (tea party between First Ladies) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (dinner table talk) [declassified 2000]
Text 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Geneva (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (closing conversation) [declassified 2000]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool: Magistrates’s Courts”) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local Government: Letwin minute to MT (“Liverpool”) [“disturbing signs in today's press that Ministers … getting the jitters about Liverpool”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute to No.10 (“Banking White Paper”) [the publishing timetable] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Immigration: Hurd minute to Howe (“Entry clearance from Bangladesh”) [review of visa policy, and handling of representations by MPs] [declassified 2016]
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