Downing Street documents show Charles Powell urging PM to give her defence secretary a ‘shut up or quit’ ultimatum at January 1986 cabinet meetingMargaret Thatcher was urged by her closest advisers at the height of the 1986 Westland affair to inform her defence secretary,Michael Heseltine, to halt his campaign for a European solution to the crisis or face the sack from the cabinet, or Downing Street files released on Friday show.
The delayed release of 2000 pages of confidential correspondence in the main Westland files show her two closest advisers,Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham, fought a relentless campaign from within the heart of Downing Street against Heseltine.
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Source: theguardian.com