MT Engagement Diary

Monday 9 May 1983

(General Election announcement)

0715

[Rehearsal]

0830

Hair

1000

[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

[Meeting of Ministers [re Somerset House] [Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), S/ Env (Tom King), Financial Sec (Nicholas Ridley), S/ Ed (Sir Keith Joseph)]]

1200

[Chief Whip (Michael Jopling)]

1215

[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

[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

[PM paired all day]