Friday 1st October 1982
Great activity on the budget speech [sic: party conference speech]
- looks as though I will be pressed into service - all go to Chequers for W/e but I stay
PM agreed to hold Harland + Wolf - wages = 0 is CONDITION of money (40% subsidy)
GH’s [Sir Geoffrey Howe] group thought should merely be encouraged
Lunch with BA [Wheatcroft et al] mainly about 5th terminal vs Stansted