Saturday 14th November 1981
PM been reading Peel - found he was against the corn laws only at the end.
Snyder s Lion enmeshed [reference to Rubens and Snyder painting of the fable of the Lion and the mouse at Chequers] Churchill painted mouse gnawing away at ropes
Denis [Denis Thatcher] at lunch very anti free trade with Japs, too much total commitment to production laser beams etc.