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Economy: Hoskyns diary (MT cancels budget meeting) [spent evening "discussing how to bring her to her senses"]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Reproduced from John Hoskyns Just in Time (2000), p274
Editorial comments:
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 83
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation

Tuesday 17 Feb 1981

... After that prepared a note on the Budget for our meeting after dinner with MT. Dinner with David [Wolfson] and Susan, cooked by Crawfie, with Alan [Walters] and self. Sure enough, at 8.50 Ian Gow rang to say the meeting was off but any note in the box would be welcome. ... Spent rest of evening, the three of us, round the dinner table, discussing how to bring her to her senses ...