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Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [must win British Gas pipeline argument][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 25
Themes: Monetary policy

Monday 31st August 1981

GGP [Gas Gathering Pipeline] is an awful mess - inconsistent arguments

-but main cause is the BGC [British Gas Corporation] monopsony

-we must win this one