Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 5 July 1984

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/6
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; PREM32/18 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/6 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 5 July 1984

0830

Hair [Flat – location from handwritten original]

0900

Questions briefing team [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

0930

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

0945

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson]

1000

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Jim Prior, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Lord Cockfield, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, John Wakeham] [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1515

Questions

1545

Michael Grylls MP - H/C

1600

Minister of State Trade and Industry

1615

Dr. David Clark, Mr. Dixon and Ken Baker MP - H/C

1635

Look in at Sally Oppenheim's Reception [MT to Oppenheim, 15 May 1984, 3/2/139 f14] [6/2/2/88 f37] [John Barnes] [+MA [Michael Alison] – Dining Rm A]

1655

Return to No. 10

1700-1745

Meeting of Ministers re Trade Union Bill [Ld Pres [Willie Whitelaw], LPS [John Biffen], Ch Ex [Nigel Lawson], Ch of Duchy [Lord Cockfield], Lord Chanc [Lord Hailsham], Lord Gowrie, S/Emp [Tom King], S/TI [Norman Tebbit], Mr Gregson, RTA [Sir Robert Armstrong]]

1800

Lord Rothschild [No. 10 – location from handwritten original]

1830

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Home Secretary [Leon Brittan] re Libya [+CP [Charles Powell] – No. 10]

1925

Depart for St Ermins [Hotel] for dinner for new MPs [MT’s table: Ken Hind, Dick Tracey, Martin Brando-Bravo, Edwina Currie, Eric Forth, Cecil Franks, Rob Hayward, Michael Hirst, Gerald Howarth: Michael Alison’s table: Robert Jones, David Sumberg, Tony Baldry, Jim Couchman, Jerry Hanley, Michael Howard, Mark Robinson, Jonathan Sayeed, Patrick Thompson; John Wakeham’s table: Dr. Michael Clark, Michael Knowles, David Evennett, Ken Hargreaves, Gwilym Jones, Roger Freeman, Richard Ottaway, Elizabeth Peacock, John Whitfield; Colin Moynihan: see THCR 6/2/3/14 f113 f2 also for seating plan and other arrangements] [handwritten original notes the dinner was to be “Informal” and gives the start time as 1945]

To H/C

2200

Two Line Vote

MT Engagement Diary