ii
"How do you propose to damp down press speculation that the PM will go to Peking
to sign a deal on the future of Hong Kong?"
b) Interesting to note the heavy preponderance
of older Tories, both in terms of age and service
in the House. Of the 17 backbench Tories who
attended the meeting, 11 of them were over the
age of 60 and of the 143 new Tory MPs who came in at the last General Election in May 1979,
not one attended.