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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Conservatism: Whittingdale minute for MT ("Party Political Broadcast") [Tony Jay script - "a great nation on the move ... a new spirit abroad in the land ... The people who came here ten years ago to study the illness now come here to study the cure"] [released Jul 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 2/6/4/73 f23
Editorial comments:

The PPB was scrapped owing to a strike by nurses, the time slot being allocated instead to John Moore, then Health and Social Services Secretary.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 7pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Conservatism, Leadership