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Economy: Alan Walters diary [Guardian fiction that BA is to come under direct control of PM][released 2012]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/2
Editorial comments: Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 95
Themes: Defence (Falklands), Monetary policy

Monday 17th May 1982

Guardian fiction that BA is to come under the control directly of PM and out from under Lord Cockfield at Trade - said John King insisted

Return to London

Ferdy seems to have settled in - wants to concentrate [sic]

Rose [AAW’s secretary] said PTB [Peter Bauer] is unlikely to get peerage this time - but will be high on the list for next time - he was v. disappointed

Markets slipping under Falkland’s pressures [sic]

Information technology jamboree at No. 10

Richard Baker depressingly Bright Go ahead etc.

Love P.