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Records Reveal Thatcher Government Tensions

The National Archives is releasing two years of government papers.
 
Records from 1985 and 1986 are being opened, and they reveal trouble in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet over Westland helicopters as well as other crises from the time.
 
Julie Knox reports.

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