Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 3 October 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
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; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 3 October 1983

[Labor Party Conference 3–7 October]

0830

Hair

1030-1100

Meeting of Ministers re Bloch [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Home Secretary (Leon Brittan), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)]

Followed by Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] re sentencing policy

1200-1300

Launch of Sir Walter Salomon's book “Fair Warning”

Reception given by the Directors of the Churchill Press, Tallow Chandlers Hall, 4 Dowgate Hill, EC4 [See Salomon to MT, 28 Mar 1984 (PREM19/1461 f289): he was proud to recall that on this occasion MT made a speech in which she called him “the sergeant-major of the awkward squad”.]

1430

Lord Cockfield

1530

S/S Scotland [George Younger] and Sir James Goold

1615

Sir Keith Joseph

1630

Meeting of Ministers re abolition of GLC and MCCs [S/S Env (Patrick Jenkin), Home Sec (Leon Brittan), S/S Emp (Norman Tebbit), CST (Peter Rees), S/S DES (Sir Keith Joseph), Lord Gowrie, S/S TP (Tom King), A-G (Sir Michael Havers), CDL (Lord Cockfield)]

1730

[Sir Brian Tovey]

1800

Drinks with Mr. du Cann and Mr. Rowland

1900

Keep free for Michael Scholar

MT Engagement Diary