DOWNING Street files revealing the truth about Sir Mark Thatcher’s secretive business dealings aided by his Prime Minister mother have been controversially sealed from public view.
The National Archives has released government records and notes of Cabinet meetings under the 30-year-rule, covering 1986 to 1988, the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s reign in No10.
Among them are behind-closed-doors discussions on the Tory government’s response to the AIDS crisis, East/West relations, plans for inner-city regeneration and economic and education policy.