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Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM irate with Walters. Bacon and eggs for supper.][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 101
Themes: Monetary policy

Sunday 15th November 1981

Writing speech at Chequers for Guildhall.

PM very tired and irate - esp. with me for opposing the view that because all countries were putting into action policies like ours we should not follow them blindly.

Bacon and eggs working supper.

LATER returned to my desk and found gems there.

Gummer said let s leave it till tomorrow. [interleaved with the diary is a cutting from Letter s page of The Times, 15 Nov 1981, letters from Bancroft and Hebecq and Peter Jay on Disbanding the Civil Service Department , above which Walters wrote: Jay seems to go slightly over the top on Kellner! ]