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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;Mrs Thatcher, with her humble duty to The Queen, has the honour to submit the attached list of appointments for Your Majesty’s most gracious approval.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&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;
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&lt;p class="page-number" style="text-align:left;"&gt;Page 2&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="width:50%;padding:0.5em;vertical-align:top;border:none;"&gt;Secretary of State for Defence&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="width:50%;padding:0.5em;vertical-align:top;border:none;"&gt;The Right Honourable George Kenneth Hotson Younger, TD, DL, MP&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="padding:0.5em;vertical-align:top;border:none;"&gt;Secretary of State for Scotland&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0.5em;vertical-align:top;border:none;"&gt;Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, Esquire, MP&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;!-- repeat each &lt;tr&gt;…&lt;/tr&gt; for additional appointments --&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;
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Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)</text>
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