Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 21 May 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

Tuesday 21 May 1985

0600

[(Rehearsal)]

0900

Questions Briefing Team

1000

Meeting with Industrialists (Switch to engineering. S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Trade and Industry [Norman Tebbit], Employment [Tom King], Lord Young, S/S Scotland [George Younger], PUSS for Industry, Sir R. Nicholson, Mr. Warry & Mr. Wiggins) [Meeting with Industrialists & Ministers]

1130

Keep free for Women’s Conference Speech

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Sir Paul Bryan, M.P. + Mr. Alison [H/C]

1600

Meeting with 1922 Executive + Mr. Alison [H/C] [Paul Bryan, Sir Peter Hordern, Winston Churchill, Terence Higgins, Ralph Howell, Charles Morrison, William Benyon, John Osborne, John Biggs-Davison, Marcus Fox] [2/6/3/114 part 3 f18]

1650

Return to No. 10

1700

Talks with Prime Minister of Finland [Kalevi Sorsa] and Mr. Powell

1800 c

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison

1815

Look in at Reception for Conservative Women’s Chairmen [+MA (Michael Alison)] [at the Foreign Secretary’s official residence, 1 Carlton Gardens, see 2/10/40 f4; Emma Nicholson, Lady Elspeth Howe, Penny Gummer]

1845

Return to No. 10

1915

Change

1945 for 2000

Dinner for Prime Minister of Finland [Kalevi Sorsa] + Mr. Thatcher [Black Tie] [see 1/10/92 f8 for

guests and table plan: guests at MT's table were Sorsa, Lady Young of Graffham, the Speaker (Bernard Weatherill), Lady Blaker, Lord Marsh, Mrs Luce, the Ambassador of Finland]

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary