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Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM muses she would have asked Roy Jenkins to be Chancellor of the Exchequer][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: 41
Themes: Monetary policy

Sunday 20th December 1981

Objection to Howard article is that opposition will beat him with it (as Shore did with the Budd confession!)

PM muses she should have asked [Roy] Jenkins to be C/E [Chancellor of the Exchequer].

SDP Horam said Ec. Pol. the same.