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1988 Jul 1 - 1988 Oct 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2087
Economic Policy (Domestic monetary policy) (Part 19)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 383
Any docs withheld? 1

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88 Aug 17 We Major Monetary Policy: Walters note for Gray ("A Central Bank for Europe") ["on my visits to No.10, I fear that I may have left the wrong impression of my thinking"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 25 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Evening Market Report) ["the 1% rise seems to have done the trick in holding the pound steady despite the trade figures"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Aug 25 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (markets) [1 per cent interest rate rise holding pound steady; Lawson spreading reassurance, Kinnock on news sounded more like "sour grapes"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 1 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [sterling weakened in afternoon; suggests (and MT agrees) further intervention tomorrow in London] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 1 Th Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [MT agrees further intervention tomorrow if sterling remains weak] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 2 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Today's Market Report") [Treasury action following No.10 request for intervention to check sterling weakness] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 2 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters: 5 September") ["press interest in the Lawson/Walters stories has died down"; Walters letter on a "Central Bank for Europe"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 9 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Economy: current assessment") ["The economy is showing all the signs of a classic explosion of demanded generated by easy money and credit"; right to raise interest rates, but danger of overshooting] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 11 Su Major Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 ("The ERM, CBE, and 1990/92") ["inside view of the Commission from a supporter of... [MT] and her policies"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 14 We Major Monetary Policy: Lawson speech in Hornchurch (extract) ["The transformation of the Supply side"] [cover page declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 15 Th Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Grice ("M0 Figures") [Grice notes figures show no evidence of economy slowing, but Bank thinks postal dispute has distorted them] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 16 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Provisional money figures - August") [line to take for press release] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 17 Sa Major Monetary Policy: Walters letter to No.10 (CBI survey of UK Monetary Policy) [copy of his letter to CBI Director-General pointing out "serious errors of fact, analysis and interpretation"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Lotteries") [MT approves Hurd proposals for regulations on 'multiple' lotteries & financial limits on single lotteries, but not keen on proposal for Green Paper on national lotteries] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 10 Mo Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury monthly monetary assessment") ["not good news for inflation prospects"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 14 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters") ["usual stocktaking discussion": interest rates/inflation; Market management; Lord Mayor's Banquet speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 21 Fr Major Monetary Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 (Guinness Mahon: Equiticorp shares sale to Tokai) ["would be the first Japanese acquisition of a British merchant bank"; decision not to block the bid] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 24 Mo Major Monetary Policy: Wicks letter to Sir Alan Walters (IEA/Cato Conference) [glad he so readily agreed to pull out of speech] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 28 Fr Major Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury economic forecast") ["internal forecast makes depressing reading... you may want to... stress your concerns"] [declassified Jul 2016]