Correspondence and papers concerning meetings of the Joint Party Chairmen with Harold Macmillan

Title

Correspondence and papers concerning meetings of the Joint Party Chairmen with Harold Macmillan

Shelfmark

CCO 20/38/1

Summary

[The meetings took place at Admiralty House, the Prime Minister's official residence during the reconstruction of 10 Downing Street. Agenda and notes of meetings were compiled and circulated by Tim Bligh, Macmillan's Principal Private Secretary.]

Correspondents include:-

Bligh, Tim J., Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Evans, Harold, Press Secretary, Leader's Private Office

Fraser, Sir Michael, Director, Conservative Research Department

Hope, John, 1st Baron Glendevon, MP for Edinburgh Pentlands

Macleod, Iain, Conservative Party Joint Chairman

Macmillan, Harold, Prime Minister

Poole, Lord Oliver, Conservative Party Joint Chairman

Redmayne, Martin, Chief Whip

Subjects include:-

Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill, and his comments on the nuclear deterrent

The appointment of chairman of the Central Advisory Board for Education

Completion and publication of the Robbins Report on Higher Education [i.e., the report of the Committee on Higher Education chaired by Lord Robbins]

Liaison with the Press in relation to the House of Lords Reform Bill

The White Paper on Housing

Circulation to Members of Parliament of political material by Ministers

Management of the Press prior to major speeches by the Prime Minister

The position of Women in the Conservative Party, including development of policies appealing to Women, and the appointment of Women to senior positions

The propaganda value of the switch of Aidan Crawley MP from the Labour Party to the Conservative Party over 'clause 4'

Press arrangements for Macmillan's Albert Hall speech

The value of the Prime Minister addressing the three Chambers of Commerce of Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Norwich

Reform of the 1954 Television Act to allow greater freedom of broadcasting authorities to report on elections

Public Opinion an the nuclear deterrent

Distribution of transcripts of Macmillan's speech in Wolverhampton and television broadcast of 28/06/1963

Conservative Party foreign policy and the position on re-opening of negotiations on joining the EEC

The Prime Minister to write to the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the nuclear deterrent

Includes:-

Agenda for weekly meeting between the Party Chairman and Party Leader:- 14/05/1963, 21/05/1963, 28/05/1963

Notes of decisions reached at weekly meetings:- 14/05/1963, 21/05/1963, 24/05/1963, 02/07/1963, 09/07/1963

Minute for the Prime Minister concerning the presentation of Government policy, Harold Evans, Press Secretary, 10/05/1963

Note of meeting between Iain Macleod and Evelyn Emmet concerning the position of women in the Conservative Party, 18/05/1963

Note of railway lines affected by the Beeching Report, ND [c.May 1963]

Memorandum, 3pp, 'Public Opinion and the Nuclear Deterrent', [Authors: BS/MF/JAT], Conservative Research Department, 28/05/1963

Memorandum from Michael Fraser to Iain Macleod incorporating the results of a Gallup poll on the independent nuclear deterrent, 28/06/1963

Date

May-July 1963

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file