Thursday 17th June 1982
Sent payments (by MPW check) to McAnnelly for ¢55 62 56/100 as final payment for World Bank bonds
Hercules had 14 refueling top ups to fly to Falklands! Prisoners loaded into the Canberra + Norland - but argues don’t want them coming in Brit Ships
PM shakes hands with crowds at No.10
4.30 Tebbit + PM on Wages Councils
NT had been furious about E record of SB [Supplementary Benefit] and PM’s draft of SB announcement - he got it changed and toned down - apparently because he supported PM on the N Ireland Bill (ie no guillotine on her own backbenchers). Defensive on Wages Councils but agreed to put forward some for abolition.
ACAS report would take one year - but then we could leave it on the table until the next election.