Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 7 February 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 7 February 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Questions briefing team

0930

Meeting of Ministers re intelligence [FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/Defence (Michael Heseltine) & RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong)] [Howe, Heseltine, Robert Armstrong – engagement card 1/7/41 f25]

1000

MISC 109

1030

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, Patrick Jenkin, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Peter Rees, Nicholas Ridley, Douglas Hurd, Lord Gowrie, Lord Young of Graffham, John Wakeham]

1230

Meeting of Ministers re release of Belgrano documents [S/Def (Michael Heseltine), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), H/S (Leon Brittan), LPS (John Biffen), AG (Sir Michael Havers), CW (John Wakeham), +RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & CDP (Charles Powell)] [FCS (Howe), SS Defence (Heseltine), Lord President (Whitelaw), Home Secretary (Brittan), Lord Privy Seal (Biffen), AG [Havers], CW [Wakeham], RTA (Armstrong); CDP (Powell)] [engagement card 1/7/41 f25]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing [No.10]

1515

Questions

1545

John Wheeler MP and Mr. Kelly to present portrait - H/C [switch to engineering & technology - +MA (Michael Alison)]

1600

Richard Hickmet MP and Michael Fallon MP re Bosphorus Bridge [+CDP (Charles Powell) - H/C]

1630

Return to No. 10

Keep free for speech

1830

[Change]

1850

Depart +DT and AT [Andrew Turnbull] for H/C

1900

Three Line Vote

1920

Institute of Petroleum Dinner at Grosvenor House [Speech +DT & AT (Andrew Turnbull) Black Tie] [Sir Ranulph Fiennes also spoke; THCR 5/1/5/300 f49] [See THCR 5/1/5/300 part 2 f37 for a list of VIPs to whom MT was to have been introduced, as well as the top table guests, and THCR 1/7/9 f190 for programme]

[Return to No.10]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary