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Press Office: Lobby Briefing (1510Z) (Morning lobby repeated, Mr Nott's statement, Atlantic Conveyor, mainland attacks, Port Stanley) ["When asked if it would be days or weeks we said we were going to take Port Stanley in our own time .... But we hoped it would turn out to be a matter of days"] [released 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge: INGH 2/4/1/13 f82
Editorial comments:

1510Z = 1610 BST. Read all documents selected from this file. There was controversy later as to whether No.10 had given any indication through the Lobby that an attack on Goose Green and Darwin was in contemplation.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 2pp
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Media, Defence (general), Defence (Falklands), Executive, Parliament