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Community Charge: Alex Allan note for Chancellor (Ingham briefing) [press coverage of decision to end dual running] [declassified Feb 2018]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: T640/822 f7
Editorial comments:

There is an earlier document on this topic in T640/482. Lawson did not seem to have agreed with the suggestion by Alex Allan that Ingham's press digest concealed confusion caused by a lobby briefing, writing "not really" at foot of the page. Read documents selected from this file. Read the whole file here.

Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 1p
Themes: Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Media