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Exchange Rate Mechanism: Black Wednesday and the Rebirth of the British Economy

Edited by Michael D. Kandiah.
Published 2008, CCBH.
ISBN: 978 190516542 1
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These seminars were held on 14 November 2007 at The Grocers’ Hall, Princes Street, London, organised by CCBH, the Churchill Archive Centre and Lombard Street Research. The chairs were the Rt Hon Peter Jay (Sessions 1-3), Peter Allen (Session 4) and David Smith (Session 5).
Session 1: Events Leading up to Black Wednesday

SIR ALAN BUDD Chief Economic Advisor to HM Treasury and Head of Government Economic Service, 1991–97.
SIR MICHAEL BUTLER QC Director, Hambros PLC and Hambros Bank Ltd: Dir, 1986–94; Chairman: City European Committee, British Invisibles, 1988–93.
LORD HOWE OF ABERAVON, CH, PC, QC Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1979–83; Foreign Secretary, 1983–89; Lord President of the Council, Leader of House of Commons, and Deputy Prime Minister, 1989–90.
LORD POWELL OF BAYSWATER, KCMG Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1984–91.
LORD TURNBULL OF ENFIELD, KCB, CVO Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister, 1988–92.

Session 2: Events Leading up to Black Tuesday

SIR SAMUEL BRITTAN Financial Times.
SIR ALAN BUDD Chief Economic Advisor to HM Treasury and Head of Government Economic Service, 1991–97.
THE Rt Hon LORD LAMONT of LERWICK, PC Financial Secretary to HM Treasury, 1986–89; Chief Secretary to HM Treasury, 1989–90; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990–93.
DR P. W. ROBINSON Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1986–91; economics columnist, Independent, 1989–91; Special Advisor to Chancellor of Exchequer, 1991–93.
LORD TURNBULL OF ENFIELD, KCB, CVO Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister, 1988–92.

Session 3: 16 September 1992

SIR ALAN BUDD Chief Economic Advisor to HM Treasury and Head of Government Economic Service, 1991–97.
LORD BURNS OF PITSHANGER Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury and Head of Government Economic Service, 1980–91; Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury, 1991–98.
MARY FRANCIS CBE Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1992–95.
BRIAN READING Lombard Street Research.
DR P. W. ROBINSON Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1986–91; economics columnist, Independent, 1989–91; Special Advisor to Chancellor of Exchequer, 1991–93.
PROFESSOR DOCTOR HELMUT SCHLESINGER President of the Bundesbank, 1991-93.
SIR STEPHEN WALL GCMG, LVO Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1991–93.

Session 4: Moving to Monetary Stability, 1992-2005

SIR ALAN BUDD Chief Economic Advisor to HM Treasury and Head of Government Economic Service, 1991–97.
THE Rt Hon KENNETH CLARKE, MP, PC Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993–97.
CHARLES DUMAS Lombard Street Research
THE Rt Hon LORD LAMONT of LERWICK, PC Financial Secretary to HM Treasury, 1986–89; Chief Secretary to HM Treasury, 1989–90; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990–93.
THE RT. HON. PETER LILLEY, MP, PC Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, 1990-92.
PROFESSOR DOCTOR HELMUT SCHLESINGER President of the Bundesbank, 1991-93.

Session 5: A New Policy Breakdown

CHARLES DUMAS Lombard Street Research
DAVID MARSH London and Oxford Group.
IAN PLENDERLEITH Director, London Stock Exchange, 1989–2001; Under Secretary, CBE Monetary Group, 1990–3.
LEIGH SKENE Lombard Street Research
DR P. W. ROBINSON Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 1986–91; economics columnist, Independent, 1989–91; Special Advisor to Chancellor of Exchequer, 1991–93.
CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR Colleague of Ian Plenderleith at the Bank of England and now a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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