Economy: Alan Walters diary (Treasury) [Wolfson & Walters agree “we must attack the Treasury position”; Lawson worried about Wass & “latent Keynesianism”] [released 2012]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
Editorial comments:	Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	82
Themes:	Executive, Monetary policy, Privatized & state industries, Public spending & borrowing, Transport

Tuesday 31st March 1981

[written on wrong page - AAW crossed through 8 April & substituted 31 March]

Carlton Club lunch John Bryze and Jerry Weis

DW [David Wolfson] and I agree that we must attack the Treasury position.

Rail papers arrive - no argument at all for electrification or trends

Nigel Lawson - drinks - rather pleased with budget and my line on it - worried about DW [Sir Douglas Wass] and latent Keynesianism. I agreed that simple Keynesianism would not do - BUT --> [sic]