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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]
Text 81 Sep 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Wolfson suspects it be beter politically if Howell publically changed his mind][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dreadful PM meeting on trade; MT complains of “beastly French”. Howell retreating on economic arguments][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [pipeline decision went well; “waffle from Carrington”. Howell persuades PM to delay press release][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Alarmed at interest rate rise][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Prior lets it be known he would not accept Northern Ireland office][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Prior “taken to task by Whitelaw for being disloyal and holding a pistol to PM’s head”][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [CPRS paper on pay “not good”][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 16 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (divisions) [Norman Strauss criticises Pym & Thorneycroft on TV; should resign] [released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [interest rate rise, worried about Sept/Oct due to VAT refunds][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM likes Walters speech; did not like Lawson’s draft][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Blackpool speech) [PM finding it difficult to reconcile election promises of low taxes with present reality][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Blackpool speech) [finishing Blackpool speech difficult; unemployment at near 3 million][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Gardyne agitated about expansion of bank credit; Walters argues there had been no effect on house price or the stock market][released 2012]
Text 81 Sep 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters argues abolishing planning controls would give housing boom. Rumours PM to be deposed.][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [had to dodge pointed questons at address; angry at interest rates rise - “many bankruptcies yet public sector gets away with it”][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (divisions) [Heath speech was awful “but obscured by Sadat assassination”; Vinson worried about high interest rates - “same mistake as 1980”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Sherman’s fears of importing US depression due to high interest rates; Walters urges to wait and see][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Pepper-Sprinkel afraid people will keep money and not move into stock markets; we should not join EMS][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Economic forecasts) [Sure 16 percent interest rate is too high][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 11 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [PM requested Walters to produce more intellectual basis for policy] [released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [PM discusses speech; justified over pipeline][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM chasing Walters for help with speech][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Question Time sucessful][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (spending) [target “implies all sorts of rosy assumptions”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [cabinet meeting on public expenditure][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Cabinet meeting misrepresented in media; Memo on need for precise PSBR][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Memo to PM to repeal Exchange Control Act 1947; Hosykns thinks wages to fall should be first aim][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [increase in interest rates too high; employment meeting - need to get price of labour down and increase sweatshops][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Gilmour argues most of cabinet are against MT’s economic strategy][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [need for legislation to stop takeovers; memo to PM. British Leyland needs closure. Hoskyns and Wolfson thinking of putting pressure on MT][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns and Wolfson frustrated; MT’s tactics are awful][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [censure debate - MT adequate performance, Powell strong. British Leyland moves to strike, government must not relent][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-committee. need to start new steps on monetary control][released 2012]
Text 81 Oct 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [reflections on monetary reform][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-Committee on Local Authority. PM caught Walters for “speechwriting chaos”.][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (YOP) [Youth Opportunities Programme; Walters, Hoskyns and Wolfson’s opposition][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (YOP) [Youth Opportunities Programme; Walters, Hoskyns and Wolfson’s opposition][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM agrees to monetary reform; PM speech good opening parliament][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Local Authority rates) [referendum on local authority rates; cabinet members views][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Brittan agrees to get off M3 and give ER some role][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Ian Gow upset about the prospect of deunionisation of Northern Ireland][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [E-committee vote on Trade Union reform only just passes][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [lunch with PM; talks with Middleton and Burns; Canada Club Dinner][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [large oposition to Chancellor’s bank merger legislation. MT likes speech draft][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “getting more and more scattered”. Lamont worried over unemployment. Carrington talking about resigning over aid][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 14 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher opposed to free trade with Japan. MT reading Peel][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM irate with Walters. Bacon and eggs for supper.][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [finished speech with PM; “she accepted my arguments and said flattering things”. Yorkshiremen very anti-YOP.][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [speech went well; talks with Howe][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [expects rates to come down][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “getting neurotic about budget”; fall in M1][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [disagreements over MTFS with Burns][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dinner at Chequers; PM seeing strategy for SDP needed][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 29 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Denis Thatcher falls asleep. Talks with PM over ban on Bank takeovers][released 2012]
Text 81 Nov 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM desires 2 dollar exchange rate. Memo to PM to look at M1][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns to stay on. Wolfson can not see budget papers. PM sees memo on interest rates][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [suspects Howe wil not reduce interest rates][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [clear PM not that interested in strategy][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Hoskyns and Wolfson “both very fed up with her”. Walters not invited to Chancellor’s meeting][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT phones up about interest rate paper][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [note to PM on dangers of 2 dollar rate. Talked to Hoskyns and Wolfson about Walters being next Governor of Bank of England][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Sherman complaining about Governor’s words in press][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM and Jenkin want quota on Nissan; Walters opposes. Howe criticises PM about indexed gilts][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [dreadful meeting with Chancellor about MTFS][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“PM stupid”. Problems with Youth Opportunity Programme.][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [memo pointing out we cannot suppress reports of bad performance of M3. “Will I be fired?”][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says pound strong][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [notes on MTFS. MT row with Ian MacGregor][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [note for PM on redundancy payments in Universities - suggests freezing incomes for 3 years. Complaints Howe has to approve everything][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“PM now convinced that M3 is no good”][released 2012]
Text 81 Dec 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM muses she would have asked Roy Jenkins to be Chancellor of the Exchequer][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 4 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Dinner at Poons][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM “deeply worried and offended” about secret strategy meeting that she was not told about; PM says CPRS must be run by businessmen][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM agreed with Bauer report; Joseph suggests Walters as governor of BoE; Vinson desires interest rates down][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Interest rates) [Fforde desires interest rate reduction; Walters angry left out of discussions on interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Walters disagreements with BoE governor; PM intent of removing Howe after budget][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Governor desires to extent beyond mid-83][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 10 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Tea with Salomon][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM charmed by governor; British Steel developments][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [MMC report “a disaster”; Ravenscraig developments; McMahon will not move][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Interest rates) [Mark Thatcher’s disappearance; Governor committed to reducing interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [MT receives flowers from No.10 staff; Havers said Carrington would make an excellent PM; MT enquires about interest rates;][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Quiet day; Sherman annoyed about BoE][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 16 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bought suit][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Saatchi’s shares plummet on rumours Tories drop them; exchange rate up, band 1 down][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [PM intent on reducing interest rates; PM wants to issue unrestricted index gilts][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Unemployment) [PM keen on working on unemployment][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Criticism in NY Times][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM angry about the “nanny” attitude to Bank Mortgage lending; PM keen that indexation would bind her successors - Howe disagrees, but Walters notes Chile; Harrington advises aboliton of wage councils][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 23 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sherman wants to know about inflationary depression][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 24 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Salomon phoned][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters criticises Burns speech on M1 planned growth; PM annoyed too][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Middleton thinks Burns has gone over the top; Tebbit’s wage council plans rejected][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MTFS) [Sterling appreciates; Middleton disappointed at MTFS meeting][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [cabinet meeting - policy confirmed; everyone in favour of NIS reduction][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Middleton gets Howe to agree to reduce interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 30 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Paddie stops runaway black][released 2012]
Text 82 Jan 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with Pattie - mutual arms limitation with Russians][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (PSBR) [Howe asks Walters for his PSBR position; Walters said would settle for 9; PM confused about TUC Treasury papers][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (economy) [PM nervous over M1 figures; difficulties at PMQs over miserable economic prospects ][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Salomon “hysterical about CPS meeting”; Drummond says Walters has effect on policy][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Governor anxious to get ER target band][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM considers preventing Laker collapse, Waker thinks “stupid”][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 7 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters and Minford agree on 2 Rooker Wise][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [criticises CPR paper][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters annoyed at budget meeting plan to give impetus to employment][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters writes to PM opposing NIS reduction; Britain’s situation better than Ireland][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Joseph over subsidies; PM “exploded” over Prior suggestions to fund DeLorean][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [potential oil price fall; “piddling around” with excise duties to reduce RPI; ministers desire more creation of jobs][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Talks with Chancellor on budget; Governor desires Exchange Rate target][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [possible contracting of hospital cleaning; alarm at expansion of bank lending; resilience of markets][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Budget meeting; draft MTFS discussion; government not going to give way on ASLEF][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PSBR forecasts; “Europe will pay for US defence spending by high interest rates”][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MTFS) [MFTS meeting; Note to PM on budget arithmetic][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM insists on housing tax relief or will fire Howe; Walters desires stamp duty abolished][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [sends PM a memo suggesting oil prices will fall more than anyone thinks; PM got cold feet on ASLEF][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Howe very fed up; Hoskyns says Walters should take over policy unit][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM apparently accepts stamp duty; french import barriers; talks to PM on budget ][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Hoskyns want to take on BR; lunch at Shell][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM wants to issue unrestricted IGs][released 2012]
Text 82 Feb 28 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Jenkins thinks ASLEF will come back to strike][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [discusses Hugh Thomas with MT as possible successor to Hoskyns; PM thinks oil taxes too high] [released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM agrees to put petrol tax up; drafting budget speech][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [offers Mount head of Policy Unit; oil price fall has limited effect on exchange rates; Bauer anxious to keep Walters in Britain][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM annoyed at Invergordon leak; does not fall for Young’s crooked figures][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Scholar wants to legislate on upstream loans; Small’s reservations about CPRS unemployment study][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [budget speech draft comments][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [reviewed budget speech; E-Committee on Invergordon][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sherman contracted to write book; planned attack on tax][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [favourable reactions to budget; dispute with Caircross over PSBR][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM realises those in the middle ranges of income are worse off; advantages of private roads][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Ibbs worried about CPRS][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [warns PM on exchange rate movement][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [E-committee on British Telecom meeting; Lunch with Lawson][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [phoned Eddie George on indexed gilts; lunch with Hoskyns and Stoney][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Fowler under pressure to make reduction in benefits; Walters fears Bank of England will kill indexed gilts issue][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [unemployment study - “pretty dreafdul state”; very worried about indexed gilts][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 20 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Saw Frank Hahn; said economists in Brazil and Israel do not worry about unemployment][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [inaccuracies of unemployment report; Hoskyns agrees with Walters on BA report][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Invergordon developments][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [“sinister suggestions” of positive discrimination in civil service][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [TRRL racket; worried about gilts][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [writes note to PM disagreeing with CPRS report; Griffiths says Walters should be Governor][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 28 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [wife gets job][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“Considering attack on funding policy and Deficit/GDP”][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [talks with Pepper; Sprinkel worried about interest rate expansion][released 2012]
Text 82 Mar 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Campbell has hostility to Whitelaw][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM opposes indexed gilts conversion] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Too late for gilts conversion; “Falklands fiasco upsetting everything”] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Westwell report] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Falklands/Economy: Alan Walters diary [“everyone upset” over Carrington resignation] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [memo to PM saying do not defend the Exchange rate; sends PM memo seeking peaceful resolution of Falklands crisis - “this jingo mood will pass”] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 17 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Philadelphia society][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [back from Sri Lanka, nothing much except Falklands][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [talks with Pym; memo to PM on indexed pensions; splendid performance on Panorama][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Civil service arbitration award; Parkinson’s report of War cabinet ][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [forgot Rose’s birthday; note on indexed pensions][released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [War cabinet - ”PM loves the forces“] [released 2012]
Text 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [dreadful report by DofT; US coming down on Britain’s side in Falklands dispute][released 2012]
Text 82 May 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Hogg article on unemployment; Keegan referred to Walters as not wanting to emerge from depression][released 2012]
Text 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [at home][released 2012]
Text 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [money supply figures better than forecast; channel link][released 2012]
Text 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Sheffield sinking; possible peaceful Falklands solution][released 2012]
Text 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Prior trying to stop abolition of wage councils; Invergordon bailout][released 2012]
Text 82 May 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM meeting on economic summit] [released 2012]
Text 82 May 9 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [questions of next Governor; Walters compensation scheme for Falklands rejected by Howe] [released 2012]
Text 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters pushes his Falklands resolution proposal; BBC anti-british bias on Falklands - “PM very upset ... why pay our money to have BBC subverted against us”] [released 2012]
Text 82 May 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters continues to push his Falklands solution] [released 2012]
Text 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Whitmore “probably decided to kill” Falklands paper; need to get interest rates down][released 2012]
Text 82 May 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [limited progress in accepting Walters’s Falklands solution][released 2012]
Text 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Markets behaving well][released 2012]
Text 82 May 15 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [argues with Salomon on capital punishment][released 2012]
Text 82 May 16 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch at hotel][released 2012]
Text 82 May 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Guardian fiction that BA is to come under direct control of PM][released 2012]
Text 82 May 18 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [DofT paper suggesting to sell Sealink to an American “of Mafia origins”][released 2012]
Text 82 May 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Whitmore says too late for Falklands paper; memo to PM on wage councils][released 2012]
Text 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (pensions) [“Stupid reply” from Chancellor about indexed pensions][released 2012]
Text 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Minford confirmed results of high marginal tax rates and replacement ratios][released 2012]
Text 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [something must be done over National Loans Fund][released 2012]
Text 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [unable to go to E(DL); “Disaster in the South Atlantic seems imminent”] [released 2012]
Text 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [“Disaster indeed - but not yet reported”; critical issue of rail strike][released 2012]
Text 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM desires reduction in federal spending; Walters angry he was not invited to summit meeting; PM looked in good form][released 2012]
Text 82 May 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Walters trying to stop MT and Howe from goading Reagan][released 2012]
Text 82 May 29 Sa Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Opera; fall of Goose Green][released 2012]
Text 82 May 31 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [sunbathed, saw Uncle Vanya] [released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [wrote note for PM on tax increase issue for Reagan; lunch with “stupid” Silk who believes expansionism will reduce unemployment][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (taxation) [Couzens desires to recommend PM to nudge Reagan towards tax increases] [released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Reagan visit briefing for PM; MT has “silly ideas” about development of Falklands with tourism][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [US abstains in UN vote; interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Jenkins desires Khaki election; BR electrification][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with Reagan][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [Walters ill; Lankester upset about Falklands expedition][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 10 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [buys wife pearls][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Golstein worried about rushing electrification issue][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 12 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [fellows meeting][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 13 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [off to Bonn][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bonn conference; Argentina surrenders][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [deep dissent in Chancellor’s funding meeting][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Overfunding meeting][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Falklands) [PM greets crowds at No.10; Tebbit furious about E record][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 18 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Off to Torquay][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 20 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Mackinnon talk][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [PM agrees to YTS wording; US interest rates through the roof][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Brittan talks of resigning; PM had rough ride over arms sales to Argentina][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 23 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Capel cure][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [cabinet meeting; disputes with Hahn over whether unemployment caused by Thatcher][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 25 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Went to Mallalieu][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 28 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Return from Mallalieu][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM rejects Jim Ball as Governor of BoE][released 2012]
Text 82 Jun 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Telecom meeting) [Whitelaw said not all party members enthusiastic on Telecom policy][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Pay policy) [E-committee on pay policy; PM attacked by Heath at question time][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 2 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [phoned Middleton on reducing interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM speech - Falklands spirit applied to railways][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 4 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Does tax forms][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [no money to pay NUR men; interest rates easing][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [interest rates down; PM wanted secret ballot requirement in Bill, Tebbit said no time][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Mount unduly pessimistic; all misled by CGT legislation; reluctance to reduce interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Legality of firing ASLEF members and rehiring; need to prevent rumour of devaluation to stimulate economy][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 9 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM dinner - said business had taken another downturn][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 11 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Meeting with Rees][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [interest rates tumbling; economists pleased with Walters criticism of Telecom paper][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Telecom) [Telecom announcement; European and US money supply] [released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Wages) [E Wages Council; MT annoyed with Jenkin letter][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Public expenditure) [cabinet meeting on public expenditure; PM “very worried about unemployment”][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 16 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [US money supply less than forecast][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bank thought market needed steadying; PM preoccupied with security matters][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (E-meeting) [confused debate at E-meeting; Bruce-Gardyne annoyed at Governor][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [helped Mount produce a memo supporting privatising Sewage of Merseyside; Brittan negative][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Middleton tells Walters not to admit collusion; Howe angry][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [dollar depreciates; market developments][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM anxious to get rid of BA][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [won on BAA; Ridley’s “maniac” idea to organise devaluation][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (BAA) [Walters advises pushing ahead with BAA denationalisation][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 29 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Oxford group - not very interesting][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [funding meeting with Howe; PM starts conference speech - worried about cynical pick-up][released 2012]
Text 82 Jul 31 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [US money supply well behaved][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 1 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Goldstein for service][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Sam Brittan desires lower interest rates - 8 months too late; TU reform][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [CBI report; agrees with Minford on interest rate policy][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [FT leak; memo to PM supporting Prior and Couzens][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [convinced PM on funding][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Howe bit upset on Walters’ priming PM; PM unhappy with Walters’ paper on European credit subsidies][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 7 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Holiday][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [writing passage for PM’s speech][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Middleton argues we are feeding money into markets][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [speechwriting - PM insists on fair tax system; Brezhnev dies - Reagan sent letter saying there might be opportunities][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 29 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Returned from Crete][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 30 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [CPRS unemployment report][released 2012]
Text 82 Aug 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [PM annoyed treasury did not contact her over Mexico bail-out; “PM desperate for us to do something on unemployment”][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Governor anxious about confidence][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 2 Th Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Flight toToronto - Chancellor in 1st class, Walters in club class][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Discusses interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with US ambassador][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 12 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Returned from Washington][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Serpell report; unemployment meeting][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [foreign reserves meeting; PM said she was a staunch European and we ought to enlarge][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [dispute with CPRS man on Telecom][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [PM agrees to circulate the Minford Report on unemployment][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [CPRS paper leaked to The Economist][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 18 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [opera][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 19 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with Saloman][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (inflation) [lunch with Freidman; memo to PM on US inflation rate][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [bad unemployment figures][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [talks with Mount on unemployment measures][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [fuss about Brittan’s speech; need to pressure George to get interest rates down][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 24 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [off to Walanka][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [reviewed submission on unemployment measures to make consistent with MTFS][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [proposals on unemployment presented to Chancellor - reluctant to accept][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Memo on unemployment package][released 2012]
Text 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Cabinet agree pay norm; PM said too high][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 1 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [great activity on budget speech][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 2 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [shopping][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Draft of World Economy speech, PM likes jokes][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 5 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Fowler good performance at Brighton][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (GLC) [Misc 79 agreed to recommend abolishing Greater London Council, PM hesitant;][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [attempts to get Japanese to import more][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [interest rates falling; FT went through 600 barrier; PM uses speech][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [continued to remind Middleton of need for conversion][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [downward slide in US interest rates; secrecy over Minford Report][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 12 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with private secretary][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [discusses Guildhall speech with PM; MT gives Howe “a roasting on thresholds”][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (unemployment) [Heseltine discusses election strategy - go for June; secret meeting with PM on unemployment - “desperately anxious to prevent leaks”][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (secret meeting) [secret meeting agreed thresholds and more work on CAP and workfare][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 16 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Bauer lunch][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 17 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Salomon lunch][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Department of Industry says Walters is “holding things up”][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sends PM note on Howe - PM rejects it][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Defeatism in civil service preventing Walters schemes][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [meeting with PM and Howe over NIS/NIC][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Discussion with Parsons; PM discusses budget proposals][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Law of the sea talks][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Butler thinks Trade memo good][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with US correspondents; dinner with BoE governor, argued against fiscal stimulus][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [E committee on protection - “would not let PM get away with her Jap phobia”][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [high M3, sends note to PM to reassure her][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 30 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [War and Peace][released 2012]
Text 82 Oct 31 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with Salomon][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 1 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [lunch with PM][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public expenditure meeting) [public expenditure cabinet meeting - pensions; Joseph wants to reduce student grants, Nigel Lawson on loyalty scrip][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [“Opening of Parliament - Queens Speech completely mistaken by Press as indicator Spend Spend Spend”; steel subsidies][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Tebbit anxious to enlist Walters in getting low offer to health workers accepted; Wass asks Walters to let interest rates fall lower][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 5 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Dinner][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 6 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [dinner][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 7 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Lunch with Bauer][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Griffiths congratulates Wlters on low inflation rate; met Denis Thatcher - PM told him “not to be too friendly”][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [BT meeting; PM tells Jenkin DOI officials interventionists; pressure from Wass to reduce interest rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [worked on speech - PM “solid except tit-for-tat protectionism”; PM alarmed by memo on tax avoidance][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Continued to work on PM speech; Howe has psychiatric treatment][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 15 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [residual speechwriting][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (interest rates) [Middleton complains about interest rate rise][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 17 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [interviews with Reagan][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Sprinkel admitted need to get the deficit down][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (inflation) [PM very concerned at decline of pound; monetary stance has changed in US; keen on persuading Reagan to cut deficit by increasing taxes][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Goldberger concerned we do something about Exchange rates; PM had to be reassured][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Kenyon believes Britoil was political disaster][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [“we are being bounced”][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Chancellor meeting - want to move 10 percent bill rate][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 27 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Nuffield visit][released 2012]
Text 82 Nov 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange controls) [Wakeham accommodating to Walters “Yellow Peril” arguments; George proposes exchange controls][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [recommends early election to PM; McMahon agrees US deficit is the dominant threat][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM upset by Barclays saying they wanted an increase in rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Barclay spokesman spoke off the top of his head][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 4 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [dinner with upper class twits][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Younger won on Invergordon; CBI against consumer tax reductions][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM said last thing she wanted was another increase in base rates][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (tax) [tax avoidance meeting - PM wary of driving business away; Scholar suggests Walters involved in Ravencraig][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [PM annoyed at Hoskyns’ performance; Middleton says not to forget personal allowances in budget][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [PM wants to see growth; talked to Scholar about Walters’ successor][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 12 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [election prediction in The Observor][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [Cockfield memo on trade policy - aim for open trading system; Middleton believes no need to increase base roots through new year][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 14 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [cut in US discount rate - should be able to hang on][released 2012]
Text 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary [leave 9AM][released 2012]
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