Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 2 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

Tuesday 2 July 1985

0900

Questions Briefing

0930

Worked on statement [Handwritten original says, “K/f for Statement”.]

1000

Meeting of Ministers [Immigration and European Convention on Human Rights] [Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), H/S (Leon Brittan), AG (Sir Michael Havers), LPS (John Biffen), FCS (Sir Geoffrey Howe), CW (John Wakeham), Ld Chancellor (Lord Hailsham)]

1050

Meeting of Ministers [ILEA and Local Government] [Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), Ld Denham, LPS (John Biffen), CW (John Wakeham), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), Kenneth Baker +AT (Andrew Turnbull)]

1130

Mr. Hans-Jochen Vogel, Leader of West German Opposition [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1200

Worked on statement [Handwritten original says, “K/f for Statement”.]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Statement on European Council

1630

Opened Members’ Art Exhibition, Upper Waiting Hall, H/C [+MA (Michael Alison)] [+ Michael Alison: see his engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f30]

1655

Returned to No.10

1700

Sir Robert Armstrong [Handwritten original has MT meeting with Robin Butler and John Redwood, in addition to Sir Robert Armstrong.]

1730

Sir Percy Cradock [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1830

Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph] [Student Support] [+FERB (Robin Butler)]

1930

[Change]

2000

Left No.10

2015

Dinner with American Ambassador, Winfield House [Regents Park, Black Tie +DT +FERB (Robin Butler) & CDP (Charles Powell)] [George & Barbara Bush; Charles & Carol Price] [see THCR 6/2/2/116 f58 for guest list and 6/2/2/116 f62 for minute on this dinner; Charles Price presented MT with a pair of candlesticks to commemorate the 200th anniversary of UK/US diplomatic relations.]

Paired all day

MT Engagement Diary