MT Engagement Diary

Tuesday 8 February 1983

0830

Meeting on water strike [S/ NI (Jim Prior) away]

0900

Questions briefing team

0930-1015

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

1015

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Francis Pym]

1015

[John Selwyn Gummer MP for YC speech] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

1200

Sir Oliver Wright

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Gordon Wilson, MP and Alex Fletcher MP re Timex closure in Dundee. + Ernie Ross MP - H/C

1630-1715

Mr. Thapa, Prime Minister of Nepal to tea

1715

[E(TP)] [THCR 6/1/2A/3]

1830

Audience

Returned to No. 10 to change

2030

Dinner with SAS +DT and IG [Ian Gow] - Chelsea Barracks [Black Tie: No Decorations] [THCR 6/1/2A/3] [see THCR 6/2/2/56, dinner for about 30, including most if not all of the Majors and Captains who had served in the Falklands. There is no guest list in the file, but among those attending were the Colonel Commandant of the SAS, and Governor of the Royal Hospital, General Sir Richard Ford, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Sir Stephen Hastings, Viscount Head, Ian Gow, and Jane Gow.] [see THCR 1/7/7 f195 for the dinner menu and program]

[PM paired all day]