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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Welfare: Hamilton record of conversation (Health and Social Services backbench committee meeting) [withdrawal of housing benefit; Portillo argued that "taxpayers with no capital should not be subsidising other people with significant sums of capital"] [released Jul 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 2/6/4/47 part 2 f57
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Read all documents from the 1988 release of MT's party and personal papers.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 1p
Themes: Social security & welfare, Housing