Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 1 July 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

Monday 1 July 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

1000

Secretary of State for Employment [Tom King] [Wages Councils] [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1030

Meeting of Ministers [Deregulation] [MWP (Lord Young), S/TI (Norman Tebbit), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Emp (Tom King), S/HSS (Norman Fowler), H/S (Leon Brittan), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), Mr Renton, Ld Gowrie, Mr Trippier, Sir R. Ibbs, CW (John Wakeham), LPS (John Biffen), Mr Twyman +AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1130

Lord Young [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1200

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1215

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] & Chairman [John Selwyn Gummer]

1250

Left No.10 [+DW (David Wolfson)]

1300

Lunched at Centre for Policy Studies [8 Wilfred St] [list 2/11/3/4 part 2 f48 for guest list: Bishop of Norwich (Maurice Wood), Sir David Wolfson, Professor Ralf Dahrendorf, Professor Brian Griffiths, Leopold de Rothschild, Peter Benton, Matthew Bullock, Lord Thomas, Sir Ronald Halstead, Roger Lubbock, Shirley Letwin, Hugh Elwell, Daniel Johnson; list is also available in 6/2/2/116 f4]

1430

Met Lord Thomas

1500

Met Sir Ronald Halstead [[re Centre’s finances] +DW (David Wolfson)]

Returned to No.10

1530

Sir Oliver Wright [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1600

Meeting of Ministers [Vehicle Emissions] [S/T (Nicholas Ridley), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), Mr [illegible], Mr Waldegrave, Mr Rifkind, Sir R. Nicholson, Mr Williams]

1655

E(A) [+AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1800

[Change]

1839

Reception for Leaders of Conservative Councils and local authorities

Supper in flat [Handwritten original has MT returning to H/C to have supper with Michael Alison.]

Paired until 2000 and after 2200

MT Engagement Diary