1987 General Election: Manifesto planning notes and briefs (I): Correspondence and drafts concerning the preparation and printing of the Conservative Party’s 1987 election manifesto, including instructions to Ministers/Special Advisers and manifesto briefings for Conservative Parliamentary Candidates, Apr-May 1987

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Correspondents include:-

Rifkind, Malcolm, Secretary of State for Scotland
Garner, Sir Anthony, Director of Organisation, Conservative Central Office
Griffiths, Brian, Professor, Head of Policy Unit, 10 Downing Street
Harris, Robin, Director, Conservative Research Department
James, Howell, Special Adviser in the Department of Employment and Department of Trade and Industry
Sherbourne, Stephen, Political Secretary, 10 Downing Street

Subjects include:-

Includes:-

Provisional structure for proposed Conservative Party manifesto, ND
Draft foreword to the 1987 Manifesto, ND
Draft manifesto section, ‘The Government’s achievements’, 13/04/1987
Draft Chapter 15 of the manifesto, ‘Law and the Citizen’, 23/04/1987
Draft manifesto section, ‘Conservative achievements: the first eight years’, 30/04/1987
Draft manifesto section, ‘Conservative achievements in Wales’, 30/04/1987
Draft manifesto section, ‘Conservative achievements: the first eight years’, 01/05/1987
Draft manifesto section, ‘Conservative achievements in Scotland’, 01/05/1987
Annotated draft of the Welsh Manifesto, 07/05/1987
1st draft of Chairman’s narrative for the 1987 manifesto video, 12/05/1987

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CRD 4/30/7/26

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