Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 13 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

Wednesday 13 November 1985

0900

Meeting of Ministers [Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Governor of Bank of England [Robin Leigh-Pemberton], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Leon Brittan], Chief Whip (John Wakeham), Lord Privy Seal (John Biffen), Sir P. Middleton, Sir T. Burns, Mr. E. George + Mr. Norgrove] [Handwritten original also lists the Lord President (Willie Whitelaw) as an attendee.] [ERM]

1030

Malcolm Rutherford for Financial Times Interview + Mr. Ingham

1130

Secretary of State for Social Services [Norman Fowler] + Mr. Wicks [or DN (David Norgrove)]

1215

Keep free to read briefs

1230

Talks with Amir of Qatar

1315

Lunch for Amir + DT

1440

Amir departs

1500

Sir Hugh Rossi, MP [No.10]

1530

Chairman [Norman Tebbit] [No.10]

1600

Meeting with National Union Officers and Area Chairmen + Messrs Alison and Sherbourne [No.10] [2/6/3/113 part 3 f4] [see THCR 2-6-3-113 part 3 f8 for attendance list: Lord Sanderson (Chairman of the NU Executive); Sir Basil Feldman (Chairman of the NU); Robin Nelder (Secretary of the NU); Sir Humphrey Atkins (President of the NU); Dame Joan Seccombe, Patrick Lawrence, Sir Ian McLeod (Vice Chairmen of the NU); Sue Prendergast (Greater London Area Chairman), Michael Lycett (Northern Area Chairman), Mary Tomlinson (North Western Area Chairman), Joe Barnard (Yorkshire Area Chairman), John Mason (East Midlands Area Chairman), Michael Price (West Midlands Area Chairman), Stanley Odell (Eastern Area Chairman), Joyce Billings (Wessex Area Chairman), Michael Carter (Western Area Chairman), Zach Brierley (Wales Chairman), Ian McCrone (Scottish President)]

1750

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Wicks

1800

Audience [HM The Queen]

1900c

Return to No. 10

Collect Mr. Alison and Depart for Dover House

1915c

Look in at Scottish Office party [+MA (Michael Alison) - Dover House]

2000c

Supper with Mr. Alison H/C [2/6/3/18 part 3 f5]

2100

Wind-ups

2200

THREE LINE WHIP [Handwritten original says, “3 Line: VOTE”.]

MT Engagement Diary