Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“PM stupid”. Problems with Youth Opportunity Programme.][released 2012]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
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| 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: | 115 |
| Themes: | Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Pay, Transport |
Monday 14th December 1981
PM stupid - wants to suppress the article by David Howard (Fed) showing M3 is better than M1
David W s
Only ½ of the YOP s are on trg
Lunch Edmund Goldberger, Julian Amery etc.
Nice old buffer JA - hopelessly romantic but also very shrewd.
Dinner Simon Jenkins, Posner, and BR - clearly designed to mend fences - could I see any case for subsidy . Jenkins said he wanted to split up BR