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Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher falls asleep. Talks with PM over ban on Bank takeovers][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: 77
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing

Sunday 29th November 1981

DT [Denis Thatcher] fell asleep - PM said Denis Are you asleep - no reply ah let him snooze [reference to 28 November?]

Told PM that all HF (except Ryrie) were against the ban on Bank T/Os [Takeovers]. She waved poker and said why did GH [Sir Geoffrey Howe] allow himself to be dragooned by Gxxx [word illegible: ?Gvnr = Governor of the Bank of England?]

JH Guinevere and John Tilney to dinner at 21