article_snippet: To regular recipients, this correspondence is known as the ‘black spider’ memos, which have been thumping on to the desks of successive government members for well over three decades.
article_snippet: Indeed, there is an argument his would have avoided the controversy over the 27 letters written to seven Whitehall departments in a six-month period between September 2004 and March 2005 – and seized back the initiative – by disclosing the 27 letters written to seven Whitehall departments in a six-month period between September 2004 and March 2005 – in full his.
article_snippet: One former advisor tells me that One former advisor would have urged his to publish the 27 letters written to seven Whitehall departments in a six-month period between September 2004 and March 2005 – on his website to allow the public to make up the public mind about the 27 letters written to seven Whitehall departments in a six-month period between September 2004 and March 2005 – content.
article_snippet: Much more sensitive was a letter leaked to the Mail that Former Attorney General Dominic King (left) sent to Lord Irvine, the then Lord Chancellor.
article_snippet: The leaking of the letter caused a political storm and sent Downing Street into meltdown.
highlights_snippet: To regular recipients, 1,000 letters a year are known as the 'black spider' memos .
  
highlights_snippet: However, previously leaked letters reveal a snapshot of his political views .