Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“shambles of govt”; ”genuine confusion, especially Lamont, about where we were going”] [released 2012]

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Walters MSS (Churchill Archives Centre): WTRS 3/1/1
Editorial comments:	Read other entries from this diary. View all Walters documents. The original diary can be studied here
Importance ranking:	Major
Word count:	52
Themes:	Conservatism, Monetary policy

Thursday 5th March 1981

JH gave me [sic]

Dinner Norman Lamont, Cecil Parkinson, JH [John Hoskyns], AS [Alfred Sherman], Elizabeth Cottrell + - shambles of govt - junior ministers do not know and are increasingly delayed with whispering campaigns - openly hostile at times. But genuine confusion, especially Lamont, about where we were going.