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Mr Miller said that the advice from B4 would take some weeks to emerge. B4 officials might be expected to resist departing from the traditional application of Section 3(1). But the member of B4 who attended the meeting had said afterwards that 'provided Ministers were prepared to live with the additional pressure they would come under (from eg the sub-continent), if they depart from past policy in this way, then so be it; after all it is their discretion'. the principle that 'the more collateral arguments the better', Mr Miller thought a further letter from Lord Caithness in the course of the next few weeks might well be useful ammunition for Mr Lloyd, in persuading the Home Secretary.
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J Morris
Hong Kong Department
15 January 1992
cc: Ms Saunders
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