Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 4 December 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

Tuesday 4 December 1984

[European Council: Dublin]

0900

Briefing meeting with officials

0930

Arrival of Members of European Council, Salle d'honneur, Dublin Castle

0945

Photocall on central staircase

1000

Meeting of European Council

1430

Lunch

1455

Resumption of Meeting

1745

Press Briefing followed by

Press Conference

1940

Depart Dublin Castle

2040

Arrive Heathrow

2115

Arrive House of Commons

[Meetings with DCW [Deputy Chief Whip, John Cope] and Mr Cranley Onslow]

2200

[3 Line VOTES]

c. 2245

[Meeting of Ministers [parental contributions] Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor [Nigel Lawson], DCW [Deputy Chief Whip, John Cope] + (later) S/ES [Sir Keith Joseph]]

[PM paired after 2200 votes]

MT Engagement Diary