Summary: | File containing papers for SDP National Committee meeting 15 Jul 1990, including copy of David Peniket's `Note of a meeting held at the Grosvenor Hotel on 15 Jul 1990' at which a small group of National Committee members attempted to pass a motion declaring the National Committee's decision on 3 Jun to suspend the SDP constitution null and void, with copy of draft press release declaring this resolution; copy letter sent by John Cartwright toJohn Martin, who had moved this motion, denying its validity and explaining the decision to suspend the constitution; fax from Ian Wright to David Peniket on the future of the SDP following the Bootle by-election result, 25 May 1990; copy letter from David Owen to David Sainsbury explaining the situation, 8 Jun 1990 Some records duplicated within this file have been extracted |