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Includes correspondence with Nigel Lawson MP (includes copy of note from Lawson to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP on abolition of exchange controls, and copy of note from Lawson to Howe, "Current monetary policy", both 21 February 1979)
Extracted from THCR 2/1/3/12 by cataloguing Archivist in 2003

Scope and Contents Includes: draft letter by (?) John Hoskyns (Head, No 10 Policy Unit) to Margaret Thatcher MP (not sent) on ‘Gordon Pepper: M for money supply’, 20 August 1979, with article by Professor Pepper, August 1979; with later handwritten notes by AAW of his conversation with ‘G.P’ [Pepper], possibly circa 1981; note from Hoskyns to the Prime Minister attaching a paper, "The pay round debate: [problems, objectives, risks, strategy", 19 June 1980; note from ‘GH [Sir Geoffrey Howe...

Scope and Contents Includes: note from the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe MP] to the Prime Minister, "Rolling over the monetary target", 14 November 1980; and related papers; note from John Wiggins (HM Treasury) to Tim Lankester (Prime Minister's Private Secretary for Economic Affairs), "Selling more debt to persons", 14 November 1980; note from Wiggins to Lankester, "Papers for monetary seminar", 14 November 1980; with attached papers; note from...

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Collected economic papers relating to his role working for the Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher MP), with later economic briefing and forecasting papers, academic papers, articles and press cuttings

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Includes: briefing notes from: Brian Griffiths (includes copy of his paper on, "Monetary policy", 10 December 1975); Christopher Patten, Director, CRD (includes his detailed note for MT, 4 June 1975, and note for MT ahead of an all day meeting of the "LCC" [Leader’s Consultative Committee, Shadow Cabinet] on 13 February 1976); and Adam Ridley (includes his notes for MT on "Party strategy", 19 January 1976, and "Public Sector Borrowing Requirement", 21 January 1976)

Scope and Contents Includes: MT's handwritten annotations Includes: briefing notes from: Keith Britto (includes his paper on, "A selection of possible scenarios on the result of the next General Election", May 1976); Peter Cropper (includes papers for MT on the Finance Bill, 1976, including a copy of MT’s handwritten letter of thanks to Cropper, circa July 1976); and Christopher Patten, Director (includes his paper on, "The image of the Conservative Party", April 1976) Also...

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1979: includes copy of letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe MP from Nigel Lawson MP, "The PSBR [Public Sector Borrowing Requirement] in 1979/80", 22 February 1979; copy of "The budget 1979, CBI representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Denis Healey MP]", February 1979; copy of ITN's budget factbook, March 1979; note by ‘TL [Tim Lankester, her Private Secretary for Economic Affairs]’ of MT’s reaction to the budget briefing by Sir John Hunt (Cabinet Secretary) of 4...

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten annotations Also includes notes of a meeting by George Cardona (Conservative Research Department) relating to social security issues (MT did not attend), 27 September 1976; a paper by Adam Ridley (CRD), "The economic education of the public, proposals, for ‘concerted action’ and fighting inflation", 16 May 1977 (annotated by MT); minutes of a meeting by Rob Shepherd (CRD) to discuss pay issues (attended by MT), 15 February 1978; minutes of a meeting by...

Scope and Contents Includes MT's handwritten annotations Includes correspondence from Sir Geoffrey Howe MP, Alan Hurst-Brown and Gordon Reece; unpublished paper by [Professor Peter] P.T. Bauer, "Class: the root of all evil", ca. 1977; paper prepared by Adam Ridley (Conservative Research Department) for Sir Keith Joseph MP "Bank of England Quarterly on Inflation"", 26 June 1978; paper by Ridley on "Some main economic issues", for a meeting to discuss economic matters...

Scope and Contents Part 1, 1978-79: includes briefing notes for MT by 'Adam [Adam Butler MP]' and Ian Gow MP (her successive Parliamentary Private Secretaries), Sir Geoffrey Howe MP, David Howell MP and by the Conservative Research Department (including paper from Adam Ridley); correspondence with Peter Mills MP and Robert Jackson; and a record of a meeting on the "European Monetary System" (not attended by MT but including Lord (Peter) Thorneycroft, Adam Ridley and Alan Howarth) held at Lloyds Bank,...

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Spearing's collection of press cuttings on European affairs from UK daily newspapers. Of the cuttings, Spearing wrote: 'One of their values could be the extent to which past events were viewed at the time, and the degree of understanding in news and "column" content of what is now see as retrospective significance, and the extent to which "re-assurance" and "warning" of the times have been unjustified, or not in each case; and maybe the reasons why [sic].'