This memo offers clarification with regards to a reference made to John Major's opposition to any concession to PIRA in a note from Charles Powell regarding a meeting between Major and Peter Brooke on 13 February 1991. The date on the note is unclear, but the markings and the position of the document suggest it says 14 February 1991. This document is lightly annotated.
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Sir Charles Powell KCMG
10 Downing Street
LONDON
SW1
14th February 1991
[Dear Charles,]
NORTHERN IRELAND: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Thank you for your letter of 13 February about the Prime Minister’s meeting earlier that day with Mr Brooke.
In respect of your reference to the Prime Minister being opposed to any sort of concessions, my Secretary of State has commented that his recollection of this is rather different, in that the point (which he made) was that the Government might be asked, not now but perhaps later in the year, for things which it would not feel able to grant (and which he would not recommend it to grant).
[Your sincerely,
Tony Pawson]
A J D PAWSON