Sears founded Out on the Street, Wall Street's first senior leadership summit focused on LGBT issues.
The file does not record the final outcome of deliberations but a letter from Charles Powell, Thatcher's private secretary in Downing Street, recorded the outcome of a further, senior ministerial summit on chemical weapons in August that year.
Before this weekend's summit, senior figures in global politics urged delegates to reconsider threats to sever ties with the ICC in solidarity with Kenya.
On Wednesday morning, briefing privately on the business of the summit, senior German officials made minimal mention of the surveillance scandal.
But this diversity of styles may now be muddying the Tory message.At least political strategy is something the Conservatives can work on; a two-hour meeting of the shadow cabinet on February 23rd was not the only summit of senior Tories in recent days.
Franklin gives a fly on the wall account of a summit of senior figures from both countries including business leaders and former diplomats, one which appears to have gone so badly that one member of the UK delegation is reported as saying "we're not moving apart, we're marching apart".
"The Trust", it continues, "spawned Hacked Off – the lobby group present at the late-night summit with senior Labour and Liberal Democrat figures in Ed Miliband's Commons office which hatched the agreement paving the way for state-sponsored regulation of the press".
Clegg, who is in Brazil at the Rio+20 summit, instructed senior party officials in a transatlantic telephone call to condemn the plans and to denounce Gove in highly personal terms shortly after the education secretary outlined his plans to MPs in an emergency commons statement.
David Cameron is hosting a summit of senior Conservative MPs at Chequers to discuss plans to limit the Commons voting rights of Scottish MPs.
She said: "I have today instructed Angela Scott, our chief executive, to arrange a summit between senior politicians, government officials, industry representatives, trade unions, and local politicians.
