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Community Charge: Lord Rothschild letter to Robin Butler ("Local Authority Finance") ["The Community Charge is, I believe, a winner. But I am nervous lest it is accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted, for example: 'Tories hit the poor again'"] [released Dec 2014]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1560 f345
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Importance ranking: Key
Word count: 4pp
Themes: Health policy, Social security & welfare, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Local government, Local government finance, Community charge (“poll tax”), Executive, Conservatism