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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) 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) 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 Press Major Commentary (The Times) Westland: “Heseltine throws down gauntlet on Westland deal” (“Brittan accused by critics of ‘misleading Commons’”) [Haviland & Bevins articles]
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 Press Major Commentary (The Times) City: “Unclean Air” [First Leader - “some deeply worrying discords in the tone of public life”; Sedgmore allegations]
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]
Text 85 Dec 18 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Written Interview for L’Espresso
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