Monday 9 May 1983
(General Election announcement)
0715 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Rehearsal.]
0830 Hair
1000 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Rehearsal.]
1000 Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]
1115 Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Francis Pym, Sir Keith Joseph, Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger,
Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, David Howell, Norman Fowler, Leon Brittan, Baroness Young, Nigel Lawson, Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson,
Lord Cockfield, Tom King, Michael Jopling]
1115 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Meeting of Ministers [re Somerset House] [Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), S/ Env (Tom
King), Financial Sec (Nicholas Ridley), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph)].]
1200 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Chief Whip (Michael Jopling).]
1215 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Chief Whip (Michael Jopling), Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw), Chairman (Cecil
Parkinson) & Ld Pres (John Biffen).]
1225 Audience
1300 Lunch for colleagues
1415 Andrew Thomson
1415 [Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw) [Mr Bloch].]
1430 Chairman [Cecil Parkinson] re Election programme
1530 Mr. Mount, Mr. Shrimsley, Mr. Gow, Mr. McAlpine and Mr. Spicer re Manifesto
1630 Briefing for television
1700 BBC and ITN interviews - No. 12
1830 General Reception +DT
Supper in flat
[Material from handwritten original of the 1983 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]
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