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Community Charge: Central Office of Information minute to Paymaster-General ("Community Charge publicity: Opposition criticism") [booklet produced before legislation passed] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/482 f45
Editorial comments:

Peter Brooke was Paymaster-General at this time. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Media, Parliament, Labour Party & socialism