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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) 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 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher House of Commons PQs
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