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Text 81 Jan 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013]
Text 81 Feb 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [prepares “facing disaster” manuscript; PSBR rising] [released 2012]
Text 81 Feb 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “very uncertain of herself”; did not want to discuss budget and had not read paper] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters annoyed; Gow did not stop talk - “probably MT’s paranoia about Press”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”][released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“shambles of govt”; ”genuine confusion, especially Lamont, about where we were going”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget speech) [“Budget speech - all hell breaks loose, the wets are up in arms - we’ll have a hot summer!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [sent Howe congratulatory note on budget; he was very pleased; “it WAS very courageous”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Discussed budget strategy with Hoskyns] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [364 economists write to The Times] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [budget leak; petrol tax revolts continues - “really rather silly”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters not invited to meeting; Burns claimed credit for budget switch; “Am I in the dog house?”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [ICL discussions - “Keith got away with it”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “irate about Niehans - thought it would be used to kill GH”; argued “but she would not yield”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (relations with Howe) [Howe’s wife annoyed Walters is in No.10 and not under Howe] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [“Railway Electrication is a dreadful mess”; Howe upset by Hoskyns letter] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (CBI) [Beckett “still all gloom & disaster”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (CSO, Railway Electrification) [many doubts on electrification] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (British Rail) [BR meeting - “Little or no substantive work”; plans locked up in vault] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget, BAA, BT) [possibility of privatising BAA; meeting with Howe; 364 economists letter] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Treasury) [Wolfson & Walters agree “we must attack the Treasury position”; Lawson worried about Wass & “latent Keynesianism”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [“PM very bossy - she would be much more effective if she was more relaxed”; writes Howe “explaining why Keynes was useful now!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Electrification Review] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 4 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (weekend) [Gorman visit; Walters tired] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Railway Electrification; Prior defence of wage councils awful] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Energy pricing) [PM shouts at Walters, but seems to be moving in right direction] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (lunch with Burns) [MLR rate cut, rail strike postponed, wage councils] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget; exchange rate) [Bray tried to induce Walters to criticise exchange rate; told Anderson budget was right] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [good article in Spectator responding to 364 economists] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (events) [reports of Brixton riots, Sherman dinner] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (railways) [PM commits herself to present size of passenger network “quite stupidly”; lunch with Scott - “appears to be genuine idiot”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railways) [committee on railways] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (union reform) [Howe & Hoskyns plan “to get TU reform going without Jim Prior getting upset”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [lunch with CBI man & Wolfson] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [discussions with Howe over M3] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (nationalised industries) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [US programme to reduce public spending; “everyone’s ox is gored”] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [day’s engagements][released 2012]
Text 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Emmanuel Kaye wants a 1931-style devaluation] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [Wolfson talked about 2 billion pound gas pipeline - Walters suggests private leasing arrangement][released 2012]
Text 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (election strategy, bduget) [election strategy meeting; Massey Ferguson boss congratulates Walters on budget] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Salomon visit “bank profit tax is retrospective and immoral”][released 2012]
Text 81 May 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [French economists awful but Salin good][released 2012]
Text 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Dicks-Mireaux met in Aix, does not trust strategy][released 2012]
Text 81 May 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [CPRS meeting - revising everything downward; “all my conjectures were correct”][released 2012]
Text 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [gives lecture to “very unresponsive lot of civil servants"][released 2012]
Text 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Chequers - argued about Monetary Base Control][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [preparing letter to Chancellor][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [pound falling below $2; MT being advised some intervention worthwhile; AAW advises against but she relents; Cabinet divided on Civil Serice pay rise] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 6 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [preparing memo for PM; Treasury paper on NSO & sterling appreciatiion] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate; new interest rate regime) [saw PM over fall in pound; measures seem to be working well on interest rates] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 9 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (monetary policy) [Pepper “thinks we are pushing the bank as fast as is humanly possible”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Harold Lever wants to manage exchange rate as he did under Wilson] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (monetary reform, spending) [Bauer thinks spending out of control - Walters finds no counter-argument; Sparrow thinks monetary reform going ok] [released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway electrification) [electrification on line by line basis; suspects preparing fall back position.][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [commends Minford article; signs of recovery in all industries. Employment subsidies “promote systematic unemployment”][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM handled economic strategy meeting brilliantly. Prior an idiot. Fletcher crazy.][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM annoyed at leaks; “pounced on Soames”. Nott gave confusing account of Defence plans][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [briefed PM on unemployment debate. PM very confused][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Bank of England meeting; disagreements with Britton on exchange rates][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM worried about debate; rumours Walters will leave due to lack of progress on Monetary Base Control; PM rude about Miller and Hoskyns’ speech][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “slaughtered” Foot in debate][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters tired from tension; Howe wants to help with British Leyland, tells him about youth subsidy plans][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Lawson enlists Walters to help attack health service spending][released 2012]
Text 81 Jun 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM opposes Howe’s plans on tax evasion, is sympathetic to small tax dodgers. Wood insists inflation will balloon][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Lunch meeting; very keen on getting interest rate down][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Griffiths still predicting rapid inflation due to M3 expansion; Walters disagrees][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [developing objections to Prior’s packages][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [finished memo on Employment; “PM liked my approach to Employment much better than Jim Prior’s”][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Harold Rose defensive on Scott report][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [redoing piece on Youth Opportunities programme; Prior’s ideas linked to press; more riots][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Read Graham criticises Youth Opportunities Programme][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Brittan keen on package; opposes recruiting youths in Liverpool to clean up city post-riots][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [paper leaked to Guardian; PM complains press is against her][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [All of committee thought Walters scheme excellent, except Jim Prior and Peter Walker][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [meeting with Gow and Joseph; anxious about SDP; Joseph clearly represents views to PM][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [arguing with MT over British Gas pipeline; “will drop it gently”][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [little structure in meeting, Jim Prior makes impassioned speech][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [employment meeting; Prior’s spending will ruin stratey][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Committee adopts scheme][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Keith Joseph phones about speech, makes usual arguments][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Whitelaw says Brixton is where “Enoch is right”. Foot degenerates in debate][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns “very worried about PM - bad way she talks behind men’s backs etc”. Must be told to “mend her ways”][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Howell accepts depletion policy is nonsense; says Energy department is against it][released 2012]
Text 81 Jul 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM very confused about interest rate and money supply bands][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Thorneycroft and Pym attacking Howe; great pressure to increase spending and reduce fuel prices][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [advises Hosykns on PESC][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [BR unwilling to train 200 soldiers to operate trains][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM tells Walters to rest][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [thinks Heseltine's article on riots “quite dreadful”; thinks Heseltine trying to get PM on his side against treasury][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “very shaken - realizes she has to change - V. tired and needed holiday”][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Reshuffle being discussed][released 2012]
Text 81 Aug 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [must win British Gas pipeline argument][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [PM has cold feet over pipeline; “thinks it is like steel industry”][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [Bank of Scotland finance for pipeline, but wants guarantee][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [“Seems that Howell must be fired - but what to do with him.” Wolfson desires alternative to pipeline][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [pipeline deliberations][released 2012]

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