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would like to be able to do so.
Mr Haddon-Cave said that he did not generally finish writing his speech until the night before he gave it. Sir M MacLehose suggested that what Lord Goronwy-Roberts needed was the bare bones of their thinking. Summing up, Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that he wished to have, in an appropriate form by an appropriate channel and three weeks before the budget speech was given, as much detail of Hong Kong's thinking as possible. Sir M MacLehose said that he had given Lord Goronwy-Roberts a broad summary of his thinking during the course of the meeting and that there was unlikely, between now and Budget Day, to be any great change in the principles he had expressed. Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that he would want to know how the budget supported the Governor's programme.
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