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Local Government: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("E (LF) (86) 1st Meeting") [Community Charge: "The Social Services Secretary has now circulated - very late - a Memorandum... that does little more than wring hands and draw attention to the considerable turbulence which the various reforms will cause..."] [declassified Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1837 f33
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 12pp
Themes: Social security & welfare, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Parliament, Union of UK nations