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PREM19/6132
Ministers (The Chancellor's Mansion House speeches) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2020 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 273
Themes: Monetary policy, Public spending & borrowing, Taxation, Economic policy - theory and process

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Date Value Title
87 Nov 4 We Minor Ministers: Alex Allan minute (encloses final text of Lawson Mansion House speech) [declassified Dec 2020]
88 Oct 18 Tu Major Ministers: Treasury letter to No.10 (“Mansion House Speech”) [two copies of latest draft, second with annotations by MT] [declassified Dec 2020]
89 Oct 18 We Major Ministers: Turnbull minute (“Mansion House Speech”) [section on Monetary Policy; possible amendments] [declassified Dec 2020]
89 Oct 18 We Major Ministers: No.10 minute (0917Z) (“Chancellor's Mansion House Speech”) [first draft of key sections, not yet seen by Chancellor himself] [declassified Dec 2020]
89 Oct 18 We Major Ministers: No.10 minute (2042Z) (“Mansion House: Draft of 18 October”) [text now as amended by Chancellor, recasting and shortening reference to the exchange rate, using a new formulation but "it seems all right to me"] [declassified Dec 2020]
89 Oct 19 Th Major Ministers: Chancellor of the Exchequer draft (“Mansion House Speech: 19 October 1989”) [with annotations by MT] [declassified Dec 2020]
90 Oct 17 We Major Ministers: Treasury letter to No.10 (1945Z) (“Mansion House Speech”) [latest text; MT annotations, seeking deletion of sentence that entry to ERM "marks a significant change in the conduct of monetary policy"] [declassified Dec 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th Major Ministers: Governor of the Bank of England speech at the Mansion House [this copy declassified Dec 2020]
90 Oct 18 Th Major Ministers: Turnbull minute for MT ("Chancellor's Speech to the Mansion House") [draft giving Major's responses to her comments - reference to ERM "now much more oblique"; Governor's speech also attached] [declassified Dec 2020]