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- 28 January 1993 - 16 December 1993 (Creation)
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Typed and handwritten notes written by Hugo Young to record political conversations and informal interviews held with individuals in 1993.
The conversations are with the following people:
[Ideas - Rachel Lomax] 28 January 1993
Raymond Seitz, 29 January 1993
Gordon Brown, 2 February 1993
Robert Jackson, 3 February 1993
Richard Shepherd, Ollie Grender and Giles Radice, 10 February 1993*
Douglas Hurd, 18 February 1993
Tristan Garel Jones, 23 March 1993
Paddy Ashdown, 30 March 1993
Francis Cornish, 30 March 1993
Andrew Duff, 31 March 1993
Iain Duncan Smith, 31 March 1993
Chris Patten, 5 April 1993 (2 copies)
Douglas Hurd, 21 April 1993
John Smith, 22 April 1993
George Robertson, 27 April 1993
Tony Blair, 4 May 1993*
William Waldegrave, 4 May 1993
Raymond Seitz, 14 May 1993
Douglas Hogg, 18 May 1993*
John Major, 19 May 1993*
Paddy Ashdown, 25 May 1993
Stephen Dorrell, 26 May 1993
David Steel, 8 June 1993
Salman Rushdie, 27 June 1993
John Monks, 30 June 1993
Neil Kinnock, 6 July 1993
Gordon Brown, 20 July 1993
John Harris, 13 September 1993
Michael Portillo, 14 September 1993
Paddy Ashdown, 15 September 1993
Peter Mandelson, 29 September 1993
[Unidentified] 5 October 1993
Richard Ryder, 12 October 1993*
Anthony Teasdale, 15 October 1993*
David Williamson, 1 November 1993
John Major, 1 November 1993*
Sir Christopher Prout, 2 November 1993
Michael Palliser, 11 November 1993
Michael Ancram, 15 November 1993
Raymond Seitz, 16 November 1993
Anthony Teasdale, 30 November 1993*
Rachel Lomax, 1 December 1993
Anne Sofer, 1 December 1993
Tony Blair, 6 December 1993*
Margaret Thatcher, 16 December 1993
Significant subjects covered in conversation discussions include:
John Major and his leadership of the Conservative party*
John Smith and his leadership of the Labour party
Paddy Ashdown and his leadership of the Liberal Democrats
Government foreign policy
Reform of the Police force
The Maastricht Treaty
Europe
Politics in Northern Ireland
Bosnia
Hong Kong
US Politics
Creator: DS/UK/122
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01/01/2014
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- Lomax; Janis Rachel (1945-); civil servant and political adviser (Subject)
- Seitz; Raymond George Hardenbergh (1940-); US politician (Subject)
- Brown; James Gordon (1951-); politician (Subject)
- Jackson; Robert V (1946-); politician (Subject)
- Shepherd; Richard Charles Scrimgeour (1942-); politician (Subject)
- Grender; Olly; communications and PR director (Subject)
- Radice; Giles Heneage (1936-); Baron Radice of Chester-le-Street; politician (Subject)
- Hurd; Douglas Richard (1930 -); politician (Subject)
- Garel-Jones; Tristan (1941-); Baron Garel-Jones of Watford; politician (Subject)
- Ashdown; Paddy (1941-2018); politician (Subject)
- Cornish; Robert Francis (1942-); civil servant (Subject)
- Duff; Andrew Nicholas (1950-); politician (Subject)
- Duncan Smith; George Iain (1954-); politician (Subject)
- Patten; Christopher Francis (1944-); Baron Patten of Barnes; politician (Subject)
- Smith; John (1938-1994); politician (Subject)
- Robertson; George Islay MacNeill (1946-); politician (Subject)
- Blair; Anthony Charles Lynton (1953-); politician (Subject)
- Waldegrave; William Arthur (1946-); Baron Waldegrave of North Hill; politician (Subject)
- Hogg; Douglas Martin (1945-); politician (Subject)
- Major; John (1943-); politician (Subject)
- Dorrell; Stephen James (1952-); politician (Subject)
- Steel; David Martin Scott (1938-); Baron Steel of Aikwood; politician (Subject)
- Rushdie; Sir; Ahmed Salman (1947-); writer (Subject)
- Monks; John Stephen; trade unionist (Subject)
- Kinnock; Neil Gordon (1942-); politician (Subject)
- Harris; John Henry (1930-2001); Lord Harris of Greenwich; civil servant (Subject)
- Portillo; Michael Denzil Xavier (1953-); politician (Subject)
- Mandelson; Peter Benjamin (1953-); politician (Subject)
- Ryder; Richard Andrew (1949-); Baron Ryder of Wensum; politician (Subject)
- Teasdale; Anthony Laurence (1957-); academic and political adviser (Subject)
- Williamson; David Francis (1934-); civil servant (Subject)
- Prout; Sir; Christopher James (1942-); Baron Kingsland of Shrewsbury; civil servant and MEP (Subject)
- Palliser; Sir; Arthur Michael (1922-2012); businessman and civil servant (Subject)
- Ancram; Michael (1945-); politician (Subject)
- Sofer; Anne Hallowell (1937-); councillor and education officer (Subject)
- Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Roberts (1925-2013); Baroness; politician (Subject)