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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
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CABINET
CONCLUSIONS of a Meeting of the Cabinet held at 10 Downing Street on
THURSDAY 27 JULY 1989
at 10.30 am
PRESENT
DENTIAL CONFIDEN
The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP Prime Minister
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe
Lord President of the Council
The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Peter Walker MP Secretary of State for Wales
The Rt Hon Norman Fowler MP Secretary of State for Employment
The Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP Secretary of State for Health
The Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind QC MP Secretary of State for Scotland
The Rt Hon John Wakeham MP Secrtary of State for Energy
The Rt. Hon Antony Newton MP
Secretary of State for Social Security
The Rt Hon John Selwyn Gummer MP Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food
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The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson MP Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Rt. Hon John Major MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon George Younger MP Secrtary of State for Defence
The Rt Hon Tom King MP
rebary
ecretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker MP
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Rt Hon John MacGregor MP Secretary of State for Education and Science
The Rt Hon Ceci Parkinson MP Secretary of State for Transport
The Rt Hon The Lo Borstead Lord Privy Seal
The Rt. Hon Christopher Pater MP Secretary of State for the Fironment
The Rt Hon Norman Lamont MR Chief Secretary, Treasury
THE FOLLOWING WERE ALSO PRESENT
DENTIAL
The Rt Hon David Waddington QC MP Parliamentary Secretary, Treasury
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The Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP
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