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Nationalised Industries: Leon Brittan letter to Peter Walker ("Lessons of the Miners Strike: Intimidation") [moral & pragmatic arguments for Government support for victimised workers] [released Dec 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1865 f300
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 5pp
Themes: Law & order, British relations with France, Employment, Privatized & state industries, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Strikes & other union action, 1984-85 coal strike