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

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

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

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88 Jul 21 Thu Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Markets" - intervention of over $600m) [MT wants interest rate rise "very early next week"; "HIS [Lawson's] REPUTATION IS AT STAKE"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 28 Thu Monetary Policy: Wicks minute for Butler (Alan Walters interview in Daily Mail) [told him he had to behave like a Trappist monk or "his return to No.10 would be in serious doubt"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Oct 28 Fri 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]
88 Oct 21 Fri 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 14 Fri 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 10 Mon Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Treasury monthly monetary assessment") ["not good news for inflation prospects"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 30 Fri 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 Sep 17 Sat 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 16 Fri Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Provisional money figures - August") [line to take for press release] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 14 Wed Monetary Policy: Lawson speech in Hornchurch (extract) ["The transformation of the Supply side"] [cover page declassified Jul 2016]
88 Sep 11 Sun 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 9 Fri 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 2 Fri 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 Fri 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 Aug 2 Tue Monetary Policy: No.10 airborne telegram to Cabinet Office (Treasury press release regarding foreign currency borrowing programme) [MT wishes to stress repayment component] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 28 Thu Monetary Policy: Lord Young PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("October stock market fall") [Young decided to publish revised report, thinking it would leak anyway] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 27 Wed Monetary Policy: Lawson letter to Conservative MPs ("Chancellor's end-of-term letter") [continued strength of the economy] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 22 Fri Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer, Paul Gray) [Lawson distressed that his IEA speech was being interpreted as a "declaration of independence"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 18 Mon Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Interest rates") [Lawson wants 0.5 per cent increase today - MT agrees but would prefer 1 per cent as "more decisive"] [declassified Jul 2016]
88 Jul 18 Mon Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Sir Alan Walters") [public comments feeding renewed media speculation of MT rift with Lawson; Walters agrees not to give further interviews; copies of articles] [declassified Jul 2016]