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Includes: cuttings, notes and statistics, particularly on tax cuts; draft notes for NK’s speech responding to the Budget; texts of his later speeches on the Budget. Also includes some notes for 1987 Budget.

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Includes: cuttings; NK’s speech notes; economic figures; Shadow Communications Agency research on Labour economic policy; paper on the Fair Tax Campaign; Economic Secretariat Budget brief.

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Includes: drafts of NK’s response to the Budget; press statement by John Smith [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman]; various economic papers and briefs, pre- and post-Budget.

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Includes: press cuttings; extracts from Hansard; notes by John Smith [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman] on suggested reactions to the Budget; rough notes by NK; pre-Budget brief.

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Includes: text of NK’s response to the Budget; the Scottish Trades Union Congress’s Budget submission; Labour’s Budget proposals; pre- and post-Budget briefs; City analyses; TUC briefing. Also includes later note by Margaret Beckett [Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury] on spending commitments.

Scope and Contents Includes: notes on taxation and credit controls; copies of correspondence between NK and Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, on the rate of inflation and Britain’s proposed entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, October 1990; statement by John Smith [Treasury and economic affairs spokesman] on the Budget; papers and rough notes from a meeting of the Trades Union Congress and Labour Contact Group, including drafts and text of the National Economic Assessment; TUC Budget...

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Notes and correspondence, particularly on the Conservative attack on Labour’s projected first year revenues, on taxation and National Insurance. Includes a letter from Michael Meacher [social security spokesman] on restructuring Labour's tax and National insurance package, and earlier cuttings and copies from Hansard on the 1985 and 1988 budgets.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence, with correspondents including: Roy Hattersley [Shadow Home Secretary] on funds for the Home Department; Michael Meacher [social security spokesman], bidding for funds; David Clark [food, agriculture and rural affairs spokesman], commenting on taxation policy; Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum, inviting NK to their annual meeting; Ron Todd, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU). Also includes: speech notes;...

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Includes: press statement, Economic Secretariat briefing and printed Budget statement.

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Response by John Eatwell [economic adviser to NK] to a series of critical articles by Anatole Kaletsky, Economics Editor of the Times, on Labour’s Budget proposals, particularly on taxation.

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Includes NK’s draft speech notes in response to the Budget, cuttings, annotated copies of Hansard (1991 and 1989), Economic Secretariat notes, economic quotes. Also includes draft speech and notes for the Welsh Labour Party Conference.

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Labour Budget submission, with post-Budget briefings and a press release on Labour’s amendment to the Government’s Budget resolution on VAT on fuel.

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Includes MT's handwritten notes on IMF budget debate
Also includes a number of economic briefing notes for MT by Adam Ridley (Conservative Research Department)

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Mainly material on the 1992 Budget, including print outs from the Labour database of Conservative quotes, a lecture by NK in Manchester on economic policy for the short and long term and speech for the launch of the "My land, your land" magazine. Other subjects include: health spending; the decline in manufacturing; public sector pay.