Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 31 October 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 31 October 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

MISC 111

1030

Cabinet [Viscount Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Leon Brittan, Nigel Lawson, Douglas Hurd, Sir Keith Joseph, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas Edwards, John Biffen, Norman Fowler, Norman Tebbit, Tom King, Michael Jopling, Nicholas Ridley, Lord Young of Graffham, Kenneth Baker, Kenneth Clarke, John MacGregor, John Wakeham]

1300

Working lunch on Queen’s Speech [Flat]

1400

Keep free for Mr. Wicks

1430-1500

Lord Young + Mr. Norgrove

1500

Sir William Rees-Mogg + Mr. Wicks

1540-1610

Sir Keith Joseph (personal chat)

1610

Lord President of the Council [Willie Whitelaw] + Mr. Norgrove

1615

Keep free to read briefs

1630-1830

Talks with Hungarian Party Secretary [János Kádár]+ Mr. Powell [see THCR 1-7-9 f67 for full programme of Kádár’s visit, 31 October to 2 November. File also includes a notecard of topics for MT’s meeting with Kádár: “1) Our commitment to playing a full part in East/West political dialogue. 2) Our support for US position on arms control. 3) His assessment of Gorbachev and his likely economic policies in the Soviet Union. 4) Who are the other Soviet leaders to watch? 5) Gorbachev’s intentions at the US/Soviet Summit. 6) Hungarian Economy. 7) Hungary/EEC.”]

1900

Change

1945 for 2000

Dinner in honour of Mr. Kádár, Hungarian Party Secretary. Informal. No. 10

MT Engagement Diary