Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 1 August 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 1 August 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900-0945

Meeting with Football Journalists and Jean Caines

0945-1030

Keep free to read briefs and Mr. Turnbull

1030-1100

Prime Minister of Barbados [Lynden Pindling] and Mr. Powell

1100-1200

Meeting of Ministers (Teachers’ pay) S/S Environment [Patrick Jenkin], S/S Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Scotland [George Younger], Energy [Peter Walker], Employment [Tom King], Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Mr. Flesher [Handwritten original gives slightly different list of attendees: S/Env (Patrick Jenkin), S/Ed (Sir Keith Joseph), S/Wales (Nicholas Edwards), S/Scot (George Younger), S/NI (Douglas Hurd), Ch/Ex (Nigel Lawson), Ld Pres (Willie Whitelaw), S/Emp (Tom King) +TF (Tim Flesher).]

1200-1230

Meeting of Ministers (Security Service Accommodation) Home Secretary [Leon Brittan], Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], S/S Environment [Patrick Jenkin], Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Anthony Duff and Mr. Robin Butler

1230

Sir Robert Armstrong to report on Northern Ireland talks

1300

Lunch for M. Fabius, Prime Minister of France [+CDP (Charles Powell)]

1500

Keep free for Mr. Robin Butler

1600

Meeting of Ministers (GCHQ) Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], S/S Employment [Tom King], Lord Gowrie, Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Mr. Hayhoe, Mr. Renton, Sir Peter Marychurch, Sir Robert Armstrong and Mr. Butler

1700

OD and Mr. Powell

1830

Sir Basil Feldman to present coffee pot [493/3178 +SS (Stephen Sherbourne)]

1945 for 2000

Robin Butler’s farewell dinner + Mr. Thatcher [No.10. Informal]

MT Engagement Diary