Correspondence and papers concerning the immigration and resettlement of UK passport-holding Asians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, and the electoral implications of immigration policy more widely

Title

Correspondence and papers concerning the immigration and resettlement of UK passport-holding Asians expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, and the electoral implications of immigration policy more widely

Shelfmark

CCO 20/66/20

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Bellairs, Charles, Conservative Research Department

Butcher, MJC, Uganda Resettlement Board

Carr, Robert, Home Secretary

Deedes, William (Bill), Conservative MP for Ashford

Douglas, James, Director, Conservative Research Department

Fraser, Sir Michael, Deputy Party Chairman

Hanson, Denis, Conservative councillor, Burnley, Lancashire

Hudson, ML, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Hurd, Douglas, Political Secretary to PM Edward Heath

Joynes, Col. CPA, Conservative Research Department

Loudon, James, Personal Assistant to Party Chairman Lord Carrington

Madel, David, Conservative MP for South Bedfordshire

Martin, Major Jack, Chairman, West Bromwich East Conservative Association

Mitchell, David, Organisation Department, Conservative Central Office

Patten, Chris, Private Secretary to Party Chairman Lord Carrington

Pym, Francis, Chief Whip

Webster, Sir Richard, Director of Organisation, Conservative Central Office

Wilkinson, John, Conservative MP for Bradford West

Subjects include:-

Ugandan Asians and problems associated with resettlement camps in the UK, Nov 1972

Potential Asian immigration from Kenya and Tanzania, Nov 1972

Difficulties faced by the Uganda Resettlement Board, Nov 1972

Anti-immigration vote at the Rochdale by-election, Nov 1972

Operation of new immigration rules from Jan 1973

Impact of immigration on the West Bromwich by-election, 24/05/1973

The Pakistan Bill and voting position of Pakistani nationals resident in the UK, July 1973

Voluntary repatriation of Commonwealth immigrants, Aug 1973

Includes:-

Transcript of speech by PM Edward Heath at the opening session of the World Assembly of Youth 8th Assembly, Owen's Park, Manchester, 21/08/1972

Copy of reply from PM Edward Heath to a Conservative MP concerning Ugandan Asian immigration, adapted for use as a template, Aug 1972

Conservative Research Department brief, 'British Asians in Uganda and Elsewhere', 24/08/1972 [Author: JATD/JW]

Conservative Central Office press release concerning speech by Sir Peter Rawlinson, Attorney-General on the citizenship of the Ugandan Asians, Epsom, 30/08/1972

Transcript of BBC 1 broadcast by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home concerning the plight of Ugandan Asians, 31/08/1972

Speaking notes for Ministers, 'The Ugandan Asians', prepared by the Office of the Lord President of the Council, 31/08/1972

Copy of Party publication, Talking Point (No. 787), 'British Asians Expelled from Uganda', 04/09/1972

Statement by Home Secretary Robert Carr, 'United Kingdom Passport Holders in Uganda', 08/09/1972

Template reply to letters received about Ugandan Asian immigration, drafted by the Conservative Research Department and the Foreign Office and approved by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Sep 1972

Conservative Research Department brief, 'Immigration', 09/08/1972 [Author: CPAJ/JW]

Note on the British Campaign to Stop Immigration, by David Mitchell, Conservative Central Office, 29/01/1973 [Jim Merrick, National Chairman of the BCSI was a former Branch chairman and Bradford City Councillor who resigned the Whip in 1968]

Conservative Central Office press release, 'Immigration – the EEC – Commonwealth Citizens – The Facts', 17/11/1972

Newspapers cutting from the (Bradford) Telegraph and Argus concerning the Pakistan Bill, 02/07/1973

Home Office press release concerning guidance for police on illegal immigrants, 23/07/1973

Date

Aug 1972-Jul 1973

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file