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enough. Mr Renton said that EXCO had never given such advice. He himself, and some other Westminster MPs, had concluded that Parliament would not accede to all three requests. One or two individual members of EXCO might have shared that view. But Exeo as a body had expressed -no-such-view-to-HMG. ̈

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PJ Westmacott

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