Correspondence between the Chairman's Office and Margaret Thatcher and the Leader's Private Office

Title

Correspondence between the Chairman's Office and Margaret Thatcher and the Leader's Private Office

Shelfmark

CCO 20/8/21

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Howarth, Alan, PA to Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft

Joseph, Sir Keith

Ridley, Adam, Director, Conservative Research Department

Thatcher, Margaret

Thorneycroft, Lord Peter, Party Chairman

Includes:-

Correspondence, annotated early drafts final transcript, and press cuttings concerning Mrs Thatcher's speech on incomes policy given at the Coburg Hotel, Paddington, 18/12/1978, and encouragement to local Conservative associations to repeat the message of the speech as a definitive statement of Conservative Party policy, Jan 1979

Press release concerning the resignation from the Conservative front bench of Peter Tapsell MP, 15/12/1978

Letters from Adam Ridley, Director of the Conservative Research Department, to Angus Maude, Deputy Party Chairman and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, concerning (1) the backlog of 10, 000 Leader's Office letters to be dealt with, and (2) staffing difficulties regarding CRD Desk Officer Christine Chapman during the 1979 general election campaign, 02/05/1979

Date

Dec 1978-Jan 1979; May 1979

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file