Thursday 5 March 1981
General papers all day. Very enjoyable dinner at CPS with Alfred, Elizabeth Cotterell, Cecil Parkinson, Norman Lamont, Alan Walters and myself. Quite unprompted, Norman and Cecil (the more I see of him, the more I like him) started straight off saying how appalled they were by the state of the Government, the miners surrender, the "all piss and wind" mood about MT - and they are really loyal supporters. Worst of all [they said] colleagues comment at committees etc, in front of officials, on "how awful she was this morning". ....