{"id":37485,"date":"2014-01-03T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=44433f8476ba0e40a05708742299719d"},"modified":"2014-01-03T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T09:48:00","slug":"news-story-1984-cabinet-papers-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37485","title":{"rendered":"News story: 1984 Cabinet papers released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>1984 was a very busy time for the government domestically and abroad. In these papers you can read about many international challenges such as the Cabinet\u2019s response to Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d defence initiative, Anglo-Libyan relations following the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev and negotiations with China on the future of Hong Kong. <\/p>\n<p>There was also a lot to deal with at home as the miners\u2019 strike began in March of that year, levels of public spending were at the forefront of economic policy discussions and the Brighton hotel bombing happened in October during the Conservative party conference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/news\/901.htm\">Visit the National Archives website to find out more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official records of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office and Cabinet Office from 1984 have been released by the National Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}