Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 31 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

Wednesday 31 July 1985

0900

Dr. Kissinger and Mr. Powell [No.10]

1000

E(A) and Mr. Turnbull

1125

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] and Mr. Turnbull (bilateral)

1145

Keep free for speech and Mr. Addison

1240

Depart No. 10 and Mr. Addison

1255

Inaugurate beginning of construction work at Broadgate site, Liverpool Street, followed by lunch [see THCR 6-2-2-119 f26 for visit briefing, including a list of persons in receiving line on MT’s arrival and a note on the programme]

1415

Return to No. 10

1445

Prime Minister of Belize [Manuel Esquivel] and Mr. Powell

1530

Meeting of Ministers (Johnson Matthey Bank), Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], and Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew]

1600

E(A) and Mr. Turnbull

1700

Meeting of Ministers (European Fighter Aircraft) S/S Defence [Michael Heseltine], S/S Trade and Industry [Norman Tebbit], Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [Peter Rees], Mr. Luce

1730

Meeting of Ministers (Local Authority Capital Controls) Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [Peter Rees], S/S Environment [Patrick Jenkin], Mr. Baker, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], S/S Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Mr. Turnbull

1815c

Lord Marshall and Mr. Sherbourne

1900c

Keep free for Mr. Robin Butler [looking in at drinks for departure of Colin Peterson; SirRobert Armstrong: 6/2/2/119 f133]

2000c

Supper with Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], 5 Guildhouse Street, SWI [discussion of reshuffle: see John Wakeham to MT, 22 Aug 1985 1/14/14 f57] [John Wakeham] [Willie Whitelaw]

MT Engagement Diary