The Thatcher government was sceptical of Eddie Fenech Adami’s “bleak” picture of 1980s Malta, describing his views as “wild statements”, recently declassified documents reveal.

UK Foreign and Commonwealth files, seen by The Sunday Times of Malta, contain reactions to a meeting between the then Opposition leader and a high ranking British minister back in 1983.

Though Dr Fenech Adami had described the meeting as positive, the documents shoot down most of his arguments.

Read more in The Sunday Times of Malta.

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