Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 18 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

Tuesday 18 June 1985

0900

Questions Briefing Team [No.10]

0930

Lord Young [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1000

Sir Lynden Pindling, Prime Minister of Bahamas [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1030

Alexandra Rose sellers [Buy Alexandra Rose from Miss Nahal, Miss Jackson & Mr McGuinness - Front Hall]

1130

Lord Young

1200

Chief Secretary [Peter Rees] [Public Expenditure]

1215

Chief Secretary [Peter Rees] and Chancellor [Nigel Lawson] [Public Expenditure] [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Sat in on debate on Social Security Green Paper

1745

Cranley Onslow MP [+MA (Michael Alison)]

1800

Drinks with MPs [+MA (Michael Alison)] [Gerald Howarth, Michael Brown, Christopher Chope, Michael Fallon, Michael Forsyth, Neil Hamilton, Alan Howarth, Robert Jones, Edward Leigh, Francis Maude, Piers Merchant, Michael Portillo, Angela Rumbold, Ian Twinn; + John Wakeham, Cranley Onslow, Michael Alison: 2/6/3/25 part 3 f10, f11, to discuss “the legislative programme for the next session, and in particular, the importance of compulsory competitive tendering for local authorities”]

1900

Returned to No.10

1945

Left No.10 [Handwritten original has MT leaving H/C at this time.]

2000

Dinner, Julian Amery, MP + colleagues + DT - 112 Eaton Sq [+MA (Michael Alison) Informal]

2150

To H/C

2200

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