Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Discussed budget strategy with Hoskyns] [released 2012]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS3/1/1
Editorial comments:	Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	66
Themes:	Monetary policy, Pay

Thursday 12th March 1981

Favorable comment by Butt (Times) + McCrae (Guardian). My quit rate rule looks as though it is a runner.

Discussed budget strategy with JH [John Hoskyns] + D. [David Wolfson]. Promised to do a paper on (a) Reforms, and (b) General stance

George Brown + Boothby + Jap Amb [Japanese Ambassador] at cocktails for G&T (Tom Griffin + Thomson) at HC [House of Commons]