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Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Reshuffle being discussed][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
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: Executive (appointments), Monetary policy

Thursday 27th August 1981

Reshuffle being discussed on previous day.

JH [John Hoskyns] agrees now about Pym - Pym tells everyone what they want to hear so currying favour as good man . Teddy Taylor (MP for Southend) apparently spiked Pym s guns when P said how interested he was in TT s ideas etc. TT said am I the 17th you ve said that to this week etc.

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