Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 7 November 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 7 November 1985

0830

Hair [Flat]

0900

Buy Poppy from Mrs. Woodham Front Hall

0945

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove

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

Lunch with Private Secretaries

1430-1515

Look in at Introductory Seminar for Junior Ministers + Mr. Wicks Conference Room A, Cabinet Office

1530

Sir Peter Emery, M.P., + Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Tim Flesher and Mr. Alison No. 10

1615-1645

Secretary of State for Transport [Nicholas Ridley] (Channel Fixed Link) + Mr. Norgrove

1700-1800

Meeting of Ministers [Enterprise and Employment. Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for Employment [Lord Young], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Chairman [Norman Tebbit] + Mr. Norgrove]

1800

[Change: if necessary]

1815c

Depart No. 10 + MA [Michael Alison]

1830-1930

Look in at Industrial Liaison Group Reception + MA [Michael Alison] Temple Place, Victoria Embankment [[via Hector Laing] 60-70 people: Words + Questions. Smith & Nephew. Contact: General Wyldbore Smith +MA (Michael Alison)] [“City & Industrial Liaison Group Reception ”: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f44]

Supper with MA [Michael Alison] H/C [Handwritten original says, “To H/C: Supper M/A?”]

MT Engagement Diary