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Problem
1. To reply to a letter from the Private Secretary to the
Home Secretary of 5 July seeking the Secretary of State's
views on a paper which Mr Whitelaw wishes to circulate to
the Home Affairs Committee on 17 or 24 July.
The paper
includes a number of proposals which we cannot endorse
in their present form. We therefore need to persuade the
Home Secretary to delay the circulation of his paper to
allow time for the outstanding differences to be resolved.
The Secretary of State's support will be necessary if the
Home Office are to be moved on the main in dispute,
Issue
the proposal to create a new British Overseas Citizenship.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Private Secretary should reply
to Mr Butler on the lines of the attached draft.
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