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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
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CONCLUSIONS of a Meeting of the Cabinet held at 10 Downing Street on
THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER
at 10.30 am
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The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP Prime Minister
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe QC P Lord President of the Counci
The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon The Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor
The Rt Hon John Major MP Chancellor of the Exchequer
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The Rt Hon David Waddington QC MP Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 Secretary of State for Energy
The Rt Hon Antony Newton MP
Secretary of State for Social Security
The Rt Hon Peter Brooke MP Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland
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The Rt Hon Peter Walker MP Secretary of State for Wales
Rt Hon Tom King MP
Thekt
ary of State for Defence
Kenneth Baker MP
Chance for pf the Duchy of Lancaster
The Rt Ho John MacGregor MP Secretary of State for Education and Science
The Rt Hon Cecil
Parkinson MP
Secretary of State for Transport
The Rt Hon The Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal
The Rt Hon Christopher Ketten MP Secretary of State for the Esonment
The Rt Hon John Selwyn Gumme M Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Rt Hon Norman Lamont MP Chief Secretary, Treasury
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