Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda concerning Devolution and the Scottish Referendum

Title

Correspondence, press cuttings and memoranda concerning Devolution and the Scottish Referendum

Shelfmark

CCO 20/11/84

Summary

Correspondents include:-

Atkins, Humphrey, Chief Whip

Britto, Keith, Conservative Research Department

Garel-Jones, Tristan, Conservative Central Office

McDermott, Evelyn, Conservative Research Department

Maude, Angus, Deputy Party Chairman

Stephen, Mrs Kate, Press Officer, Edinburgh

Includes:-

Conservative Central Office press release containing extract of speech by Leon Brittan, Opposition Spokesman on Devolution and House of Commons Affairs, Middlesbrough, 20/10/1978

Minutes of meeting held in the Chairman's Office to discuss Scotland, 01/11/1978 [6pp; Meeting was attended by Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Teddy Taylor, Chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Russell Fairgrieve, Director of Organisation Anthony Garner, and PA to the Party Chairman Alan Howarth]

Transcript [photocopy] of speech by Teddy Taylor MP, Shadow Spokesman on Scottish Affairs, to the Central Council of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association, Motherwell, 04/11/1978

Conservative Central Office press release containing extract from speech by Robert Adley MP at the 74 Club, 08/12/1978

Draft leaflet [?], 'Why a "No" Vote is right for Scotland…And Why Conservative plans are better for Scotland…, ND [c1978]

Conservative Central Office press release containing statements on devolution made by Francis Pym MP and Leon Brittan MP during a press conference, Edinburgh, 05/12/1978

Memorandum, 'Attitudes in Scotland to Devolution – The Scotsman Poll', Keith Britto, Conservative Research Department, 22/02/1979

Transcript of article appearing in The Scotsman, 28/02/1978 entitled 'BBC Give in to Tory Pressure'

Various press cuttings concerning Enoch Powell's speech concerning the Welsh Devolution referendum, Cardiff, 01/03/1979

Paper, 'The Devolution Referendums 1979: The Results', Keith Britto, Conservative Research Department, 09/03/1979 [10pp]

Memorandum, 'Scotland Says No: Result of public opinion poll on referendum abstentions', Fieldwork (Scotland) Ltd, Mar 1979

Conservative Central Office press release containing extract of speech by Lord Home to the South-East Edinburgh Conservative Association concerning the Scottish Referendum result, 21/03/1979

Transcript of recording of Prime Minister Callaghan's Ministerial Broadcast, 22/03/1979

Conservative Central Office press release containing text of Mrs Thatcher's broadcast reply to Prime Minister Callaghan's broadcast the previous day justifying her Motion of No Confidence, 23/02/1979

Memorandum, 'SNP quotes since the referendum', Evelyn McDermott, 23/03/1979

Date

1978-1979

Language

English

Physical extent

1 file