Scope and Contents Memoranda on the Government's civil spending estimates, including: brief for ministers; text of speech by [George] Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the Mansion House, London; minutes and memoranda by Thorneycroft on the economic situation, the National Insurance Fund and civil defence spending and notes for a speech to Cabinet; minutes and draft paper by JEP on spending cuts; minute by Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] to ministers on the need for...

Scope and Contents Includes: text of a speech by Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, on Australian import restrictions; excerpts from the report of the American President's Materials Policy Commission; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of the British Empire Producers' Organisation, on American subsidies; memorandum presented to the American State Department by the British Embassy in Washington on difficulties in trade with the United States; draft memorandum by LSA on attempting to form...

Scope and Contents Includes: cuttings; text of article by LSA on taxation and economic policy; letter from [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, on using subsidies in domestic and export production; Empire Industries Association policy memorandum on the economic crisis; proof and draft of memoranda for Cabinet by LSA, including "Towards a Balanced Economy: the present mischief"; Empire Industries Association and British Empire League bulletins, with the texts of speeches by LSA as...

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Draft texts by JEP: The Church, on relations between the Church and the Conservative Party, [? written as an introduction to a longer work]; The Revival of Britain; and Can Britain Remain a Great Power Economically?

Also includes: letter from Peter Goldman, Conservative Research Department, on Civil List payments to the Royal Family.

Scope and Contents Includes: rough notes of NK’s meeting with Senator Joseph Biden, Jan 1988, particularly on the economic situation, a "new Bretton Woods" agreement and the INF treaty [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] and arms control; briefing for a meeting with the American Ambassador to Britain [? Charles Price] on arms control; correspondence with Biden (2), Price and Ronald Brown, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee; briefings for meetings with Paul Warnke and Henry Catto, American Ambassador...

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Pamphlets issued by the Empire Economic Union (which was chaired by LSA).

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Explanatory document for the Northern Ireland Department of Commerce proposal for a draft bankruptcy amendment (Northern Ireland) order.

Also includes: record of discussion of the order between the Department of Commerce and the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland, and a memorandum by the Law Society setting out objections to the order.

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Interview on Labour's economic policy.

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Includes a report on an ambulance workers’ dispute in Oxfordshire, and an interview with Norman Lamont, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the state of the economy and future spending plans.

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Interview with John Smith, Shadow Chancellor, and Christopher Patten, Conservative Party Chairman, on Labour's tax plans.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on cancelled articles, books and media interviews by JEP, with correspondents including: John Coldstream, Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph (2); Andrew Painter (6); representatives of Brook Productions Limited (4); James Hanning, Features Desk, the Evening Standard (3); Patrick Cormack (3); Sir Peter Tapsell; Simon Heffer, Deputy Editor of the Spectator; Ian Buruma, Foreign Editor of the Spectator (3). Also includes: texts of a review by JEP of a book on...

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Includes correspondence with JA's literary agents, various notes and drafts, and books, pamphlets, articles and papers on various publications by others, many of which he contributed to or commented on.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and annotated papers on monetary policy, with correspondents including: [William] Stephen King-Hall, K-H News-Letter Service; Sir Hubert Henderson [Professor of Political Economy, Oxford] on sterling balances. Also includes: memorandum by Sir Charles Morgan-Webb to the Research Committee of the Economic Reform Club and Institute on sterling balances; prints from the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods, United States, 1944); Parliamentary...

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Briefing for an interview on subjects including: differences between Labour and the Conservatives under John Major; policy for industry; the health service; the Poll Tax; transport policy; environmental policy; economic policy on taxation and inflation.

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: immigration; defence, particularly cuts in the Middle East, British withdrawal from Singapore (in interviews with Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence, 1967), and retaining use of nuclear weapons; floating exchange rates; JEP's book on the relationship between the Ministry of Health and the National Health Service, A New Look at Medicine and Politics; Parliamentary privilege and...

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Britain and the Common Market, regulation of capitalism and immigration (included in a Politics in the 70's radio debate with Roy Jenkins); the Labour Party and Conservative Party (in Politics in the 70's radio debates with Roy Jenkins, Reginald Maudling and Michael Foot); legislation on equal rights for women; the Commonwealth; the relation between immigration and Christian duty (in a...

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Charles Bradlaugh; the aims of the Ulster Unionists; collective Cabinet responsibility for policy; control of Britain's money supply and national and Parliamentary sovereignty; the trial of Socrates; the powers of the monarchy; Thomas Hobbes; the role of the House of Lords; JEP's career; Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Martin Gilbert's biography of Sir Winston Churchill; the causes of the...

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on Philip Snowden's last Budget as former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the National Debt, the return to the Gold Standard, expenditure and revenue, estate duty, tax on luxury goods, import duty on hops, the re-imposition of the McKenna Duties, pensions, Imperial Preference, super-tax and income tax.

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Handwritten speaking notes notes for WSC's Budget statement on Philip Snowden's last Budget as former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the National Debt, the return to the Gold Standard, expenditure and revenue, estate duty, tax on luxury goods, import duty on hops, the re-imposition of the McKenna Duties, pensions, Imperial Preference, super-tax and income tax.In WSC's hand.

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Speaking notes for WSC's Budget statement (26 April), on the inland revenue, debt, expenditure, Fighting Services, the return to the Gold Standard, silk duty, the McKenna Duties, Imperial Preference, betting duty, the Road Fund and the French war debt.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the inland revenue, debt, expenditure, Fighting Services, the return to the Gold Standard, silk duty, the McKenna Duties, Imperial Preference, betting duty, the Road Fund and the French war debt.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund, simplification of income tax, tax evasion, indirect taxation, the McKenna Duties, wine and tobacco duties, the Road Fund and beer duties.

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Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement on the effects of the General Strike and coal dispute, revenue (1926-1927) and expenditure (1926-1928), post-war Government departments, the National Debt, war debts, the sinking fund, simplification of income tax, tax evasion, indirect taxation, the McKenna Duties, wine and tobacco duties, the Road Fund and beer duties.Typescript laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Speech notes for WSC's Budget statement on the past year, the National Debt, expenditure and revenue, the betting tax, inland revenue, reform of the local rating system, oil duty, sugar duty and car tax.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" with manuscript annotations in red and black ink by WSC.

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Print of WSC's Budget statement on the past year, the National Debt, expenditure and revenue, the betting tax, inland revenue, reform of the local rating system, oil duty, sugar duty and car tax.