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Archive (Thatcher MSS)
Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Conservative Party/ERM: MT note on meeting with Howe and Lawson ("G.H. and N.L. Madrid Conference") ["Demanded that I give an undertaking to join the ERM and specify a date .... If not - they would both resign"] [released Mar 2019]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 1/9/18A-10 f3
Editorial comments:

The ordering of the pages is conjectural. The first two pages would appear to have been written just after the event as a fair(er) copy/summary of the remaining four pages, which were probably jotted down in the meeting. A transcript by the editor is interleaved for the sake of readers. Read all documents from the 1989 release of MT's party and personal papers.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 6pp + 6pp
Themes: Monetary policy, European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, Executive, Executive (appointments), Conservatism, Leadership, MT's meetings as PM