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            <text>&lt;p style="text-align:right;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Appd ER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;10 DOWNING STREET&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Right Honourable Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, MP, Secretary of State for Defence, having tendered his resignation, Mrs Thatcher, with her humble duty to The Queen, has the honour to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to accept it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;10 January 1986&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)</text>
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