National Archives release files from 1985-86 revealing how Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham plotted against the then defence secretaryThe open hostility between Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street and Michael Heseltine at the height of the Westland affair is laid bare in newly released cabinet papers from 1985 and 1986.
They show how Thatcher’s two closest advisers plotted against the then defence secretary, talking approximately his game plan” and his “unique trick” and of getting intelligence from a “friend” within Heseltine’s Ministry of Defence.
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Source: theguardian.com