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Files seen for the first time detail how her 1980s Government worked feverishly in private to close every loophole the MI5 memoir could slip through.
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State papers published this week include confidential records showing what civil servants really thought about the North’s political leaders
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Former Northern secretary saw the UUP leader David Trimble as ‘a deeply insecure leader’
Senior NIO officials were split on whether the Government should break off contact with the political representatives of loyalist paramilitaries at a point where loyalist murders were dramatically increasing in the early 1990s, a previously secret document has revealed.
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Having helped pave the way for the Downing Street Declaration and peace in Northern Ireland, the former Labour leader is wary of being seen to preach to generations with no memory of the Troubles