Thursday 7 January 1982
1000 Meeting of Ministers on Civil Service pay
Meeting with S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] +IG [Ian Gow]
1300 Lunch in flat
1430 Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1500 Mr. Allen Adams, MP, and Mr. Alex Fletcher, MP
1530 Alistair McAlpine
1600 Briefing for Spanish talks
1700 Meeting of Ministers re Poland
1830 Drinks for industrialists [also Lord Ralph Harris: see Gow minute to MT, 6 Jan 1982 THCR 2/1/4/54 f129, Harris coming to drinks the following evening at 6.30 “with the signatories of the famous letter”. Likely reference to 26 Nov 1981 letter in The Times, signed by Ronald Halstead, Basil Collins, George Cattell, James Hanson, Arnold Hall, Lord Inchcape, Neville Bowman-Shaw, Malcolm McAlpine, Denis Allport, Ian Weston-Smith, Richard Puttick, James Duncan, Charles Tidbury, Reginald Smith, Philip Dunkeley, Stanley Field, Lord Richard Marsh]
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