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Local government: No.10 conversation record ("Community Charge") [MT, Major phone conversation: MT - "contrary to earlier expectations, the community charge regime was not bringing about increased accountability...it was necessary to consider radical futher measures"; JM: agrees but states that "important to give no flavour of exactly what possibilities were being looked at"] [declassified Dec 2016]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/3064 f206
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 3pp
Themes: Taxation, Local government, Community charge (“poll tax”), MT's meetings as PM