Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Question Time sucessful][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:	85
Themes:	Monetary policy

Thursday 15th October 1981

Talk to Fringe group - very well attended 200 or so.

Question time good - but called Heath s policy 1971/2 assinine [sic: asinine] then withdrew. Only Havilland in Times printed it.

Dinner with Lawson, Denis T [Denis Thatcher], KJ [Keith Joseph], Hugh Thomas, Lady Nieve [sic: Neave] and Ferdy Mount. Then party ITN. Great argument with Editor of Daily Mirror and an unknown ITN man.

[Different pen used from this point]Miranda Hoskyns witnessed it and said I was devastating - whatever that means.