Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Scottish devolution, including: copy of the report by the Scottish Council (Development and Industry) on the Government White Paper on devolution; copies of correspondence between Sir William Lithgow [Chairman of Lithgows Limited and member of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry)] and George Thomson, Commissioner of the EEC, on protection for the Scottish fishing industry; talks by [George] Gordon Jackson [secretary of the Mallaig Harbour Authority] on...

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The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre cover Silkin's Parliamentary and Ministerial career, and his other public interests, including the Channel Tunnel, the E.E.C. and the dairy industry. There is material of particular interest on Silkin's difficulties with his Constituency Party in Deptford, and on the Labour Party Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections in 1980 and 1983.

Scope and Contents 'Brexiteer' Anne Marie Trevelyan and Conservative MP for Berwick Upon Tweed represents a fishing constituency that voted to Leave the EU in the 2016 Referendum. Trevelyan resigned her junior ministerial position in the Department of Education. Trevelyan was disappointed with Theresa May's decision to delay the Brexit vote. Speaking about her decision to resign from the government she said that after reading the agreement she felt she had little choice and that as an MP your loyalty is to...

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Includes correspondence with Sir (Charles) Henry Plumb (President, National Farmers' Union), George Cattell (Director General, NFU), Peter Mills MP, Tim Raison MP and Alick Buchanan-Smith MP
Also includes a paper for MT by James Prior MP proposing a Conservative Industrial Relations Department of Central Office, which appears to have been mis-filed, November 1975

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Includes correspondence with John Clement (Chairman, Unigate Group)

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Includes correspondence with Ian Greer, Douglas Hurd MP and John Peyton MP
Also includes copy of a speech given by MT launching "Boston Sea Stallion", Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 21 June 1978, and her written statement on fishing policy, October 1978

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With a typescript essay on the cuckoo-fish titled "The Cuckoo's Basket of Fish", undated.

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Lectures, articles and research papers on marine research and the fishing industry.