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PDF 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Wass minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [“The case for considering 2 percent now is in my view largely political”, “not at all sure that a reduction of 2 percent is right or sensible”; but finally backs it] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Biffen minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget”) [Walters contribution “quite extraordinary”; one percent cut could be “disastrous politically”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Riley minute to Middleton (“MLR in the Budget”) [forecast points to a LESS than 2 point cut in the budget; case for larger cut “presentational and political”] [released 2011]
Text 81 Mar 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (drafting "ultimatum letter" to MT) ["just to clear our minds"]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer & Governor of the Bank of England) [“Monetary Affairs”] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute to No.10 ("Distributional Implications of the Budget") [tabulated] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Middleton minute to Wass (“Budget Speech: Section G6 on MLR”) [redrafts to satisfy Bank of England] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary policy: Couzens minute to Chancellor (“MLR in the Budget: The Exchange Rate”) [foreign exchange markets have probably discounted a 2 percent cut] [released 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Public Expenditure & the Budget") [energy related overruns] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (ministerial disaffection) [open criticism of MT]
PDF 81 Mar 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind: Free Petrol") [proposal; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (meeting with Chancellor, Governor & Wass) [decision to reduce MLR by 2 per cent on budget day] [declassified 2011]
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 10 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Cabinet reaction to budget) [Prior strongly attacks but with little support]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Hansard Economy: 1981 Budget (Howe 3)
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Press Key Thatcher memoirs Economy: The 1981 budget [memoirs extract]
PDF 81 Mar 10 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Howe (Sir Geoffrey) Budget: Sir Geoffrey Howe Ministerial Broadcast ("The Budget") ["times are tough"]
PDF 81 Mar 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Unwin minute to Wass ("The Budget & Deflation") [urgent request from No.10 for material rebutting deflation charge] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute for No.10 (budget deflationary?) [material for speech rebutting charge] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Mar 11 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economy: Editorial: “The Chancellor’s Conundrum” ("appears to go on digging the hole still deeper")
Text 81 Mar 11 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech at Guardian Young Businessman of the Year Award (defence of the budget)
PDF 81 Mar 12 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Archive (Lawson MSS) Statement on budget ("The Budget Judgement") ["no reason... to characterise... as contractionary"]
Text 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (lunch with the Thatchers) ["she needed a boost to her morale"]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Howe (Sir Geoffrey) Budget: Radio Interview for BBC Jimmy Young Programme (Howe defends the budget) [balancing the books to get down interest rates]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Budget: Ingham minute ("Chancellor of the Duchy's Lobby") [Pym "rather deftly" pressuring for pre-budget economic cabinet] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 13 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Sun) Budget: "'Cabinet Men Warn on Budget" (7 rebel ministers) [Whitelaw, Carrington, Pym, Prior, Walker, Gilmour & Soames]
Text 81 Mar 15 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (press reaction to budget) [dailies ok but "Observer and Sunday Times have gone stark staring berserk"]
PDF 81 Mar 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Cardona minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Budget: Letters from Public") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cabinet: MT to Eldon Griffiths (petrol tax rebellion) [“I know that Geoffrey will be very glad to have a talk about this”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Mar 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to John Stokes (1981 Budget) [letter “has been of very great encouragement to me”] [released 2017]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT to Mark Wolfson (1981 Budget) [“I think that time will show that the Budget was the right one for Britain”] [released 2017]
Text 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Reece warns MT to be ready) [Macmillan, Thorneycroft and du Cann will tell you to stand down in the summer]
PDF 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Lawson PS minute to Griffiths and others ("Budget Correspondence: Standard Complaints") [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Mar 24 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Economic policy: "Mr Lawson attacks gloom mongers" [defence of 1981 Budget]
PDF 81 Mar 24 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Conservative Party: "Dry" [brief biography of Lawson]
PDF 81 Mar 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion poll: Britto minute (party private poll results) ["the most unpopular budget for 30 years"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Budget, etc: Carrington letter to MT (complains at Ingham briefing) [have avoided indicating differences to press on "budget or anything else"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchequer-Conservative backbenchers) [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (ministerial frustration) ["more than just Norman Lamont and Cecil Parkinson who are - openly - pissed off"]
PDF 81 Apr 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Bank of England) Monetary Policy: Fforde minute for Governor (“The Dilemma of the Liberal Central Banker in XXth Century Britain”) [agony of the pragmatist yoked to the Crusader] [declassified 2012]
Text 81 Apr 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Hoskyns MSS) Economy: Hoskyns diary (Howe discerns signs of upturn) ["affable and jokey ... easing relations with the colleagues too"]
PDF 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting with ministers) ["Road Fuel Duty & Energy Prices"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Treasury minute (Chancellor's meeting on DERV concession) [modes of recouping 10p DERV cut] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 May 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (recouping DERV concession) [gambling, tobacco duties] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Budget: Lankester briefing for MT (recouping DERV concession) [meeting with Chancellor] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [3p on cigarettes to recoup DERV concession] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 15 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Lawson MSS) Monetary policy: Lawson minute to Howe (“EMS”) [“should seriously consider taking the occasion of our presidency of the EEC to join the EMS”]
PDF 81 Jun 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Bank Tax & DERV Duty Concessions") [minor concession to smaller banks; firming up on DERV] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: No.10 minute (PM-Chancellor meeting) [MT unhappy at announcement of DERV recoupment on eve of Warrington by-election] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jul 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Taxation of Benefits in Kind - Free Petrol") [method; agreed by MT] [declassified 2011]

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