Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 2 October 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Wednesday 2 October 1985

0800

Hair

0900

Make-up

0930

Miriam Stoppard Interview

1300

Lunch

Afterwards

Keep free for boxes [Handwritten original says, “K/f for Party Conference speech”.]

1430

Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] and David Norgrove

1500

Meeting of Ministers (Northern Ireland) Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Tom King], Sir P. Cradock and Mr. Powell

1600

Lord Sieff and David Norgrove [[see letter of 22/8] - No.10]

1630

Keep free to read briefs for 1700 meeting

1700-2000

Two hour Education Seminar followed by drinks + Mr. Flesher [No.10] [+ Michael Alison: see his engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f39] [Press reports Ray Honeyford among those present: 3/5/49 f22] [see 2/6/3/72 part 3 f7 for Sherbourne minute (and list of invitees) asking if MT would like to invite David Madel, Harry Greenway and Alan Haselhurst; MT replied in the affirmative: “Yes—we should have thought of it before”.]

Supper in Flat

MT Engagement Diary