Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 6 June 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 6 June 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Questions Briefing Team.

0930

Meeting of ministers [NUM Rule Book] [S/Emp (Tom King), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), S/En (Peter Walker), AG (Sir Michael Havers) +A[illegible - ?T (Andrew Turnbull)]]

1000

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]

After Cabinet

S/S Northern Ireland [Douglas Hurd] [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Sir Nicholas Bonsor MP

1600

Sir Julian Ridsdale MP

1615

Returned to No.10

1630

Second Session of talks with Zhao Ziyang

Work boxes [Handwritten original says, “Keep free for boxes or Mark Thatcher”.]

[Change]

1900

Left for H/C + DT

[Met by Jim Spicer]

Reception for 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment – Terrace House of Commons [Jim Spicer; General Sir Geoffrey Howlett]

2000

Left H/C

2015

Return dinner given by Zhao Ziyang + DT - Chinese Embassy [Lounge Suit or National Dress +DT]

2130

[Beating Retreat]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary