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Economy: Hoskyns diary (press reaction to budget) [dailies ok but "Observer and Sunday Times have gone stark staring berserk"]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Hoskyns MSS (privately held)
Editorial comments: Reproduced from John Hoskyns Just in Time (2000), p281
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 58
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Leadership, Media

Sunday 15 March 1981

.... Despite sensible treatment of the Budget in FT and even Hamish Macrae in Guardian and reasonable leaders in Times and also Economist (and good in Spectator, with Ferdy as perceptive as ever) the Observer and Sunday Times have gone stark staring berserk. "Mrs Thatcher's wasteland", Tory party revolt, cabinet conspiracies to have her out and so on.