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Personal and party papers, Cambridge

Conservative Party: Ingham note to MT (Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech) [text from which Howe spoke] [released Feb 2020]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS, Churchill Archive Centre: THCR 1/9/18A/15 f4
Editorial comments:

The amendments are in Geoffrey Howe's handwriting. The text was probably handed to lobby journalists to help them report the speech, one of whom then supplied it to Ingham. Read all documents from the 1990 release of MT's party and personal papers.

Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 20pp
Themes: Economic policy - theory and process, Industry, Trade, European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, Media, Parliament, Conservatism, Conservative Party (organization)