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Wed 12 Dec 2009Thatcher considered taking vote from Irish in UK
FORMER BRITISH prime minister Margaret Thatcher considered taking the vote away from Irish citizens living in the UK, and bringing them “fully within the UK’s immigration laws” just days before the worst IRA atrocities of 1979, records released after 30 years show.
A newly released document at the National Archives in London describes a tense meeting between Mrs Thatcher and Humphrey Atkins, the Northern Ireland secretary, at Downing Street on August 23rd, 1979.
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