Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher opposed to free trade with Japan. MT reading Peel][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:	65
Themes:	Monetary policy

Saturday 14th November 1981

PM been reading Peel - found he was against the corn laws only at the end.

Snyder s Lion enmeshed [reference to Rubens and Snyder painting of the fable of the Lion and the mouse at Chequers] Churchill painted mouse gnawing away at ropes

Denis [Denis Thatcher] at lunch very anti free trade with Japs, too much total commitment to production laser beams etc.