Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 13 December 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

Friday 13 December 1985

0900

Meeting of Ministers [GLC Abolition: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Solicitor General [Sir Patrick Mayhew], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker]]

0945-1030

Keep free for Radio Interviews, Hospitals and Falklands + Mr. Ingham

1045

Korean Ambassador + Mr. Powell

1100

TV Interview with Spanish TV: Sandy Gall, ITN, + Messrs Ingham and Powell

1200

Eminent Persons Group + Mr. Powell

1300

Lunch for Industrialists + Mr. Alison [DT away] [A.P. Bird, Viscount Blakenham, Rocco Forte, Asil Nadir, John Egan, David Scholey, Elliot Bernard, Michael Hawkes] [“Suggested invitees” - 2/6/3/104 part 1 f5] [see THCR 2-6-3-104 part 1 f9 for minute asking if MT would be content to reinstate the lunches for industrialists; this date was mooted for the first]

1515-1545

Mr. Richard Burton: Chairman of Cable Authority + Messrs Norgrove and Alison

1545-1645

Irish Belfast Telegraph Interview + Messrs Ingham and Powell

1715

Iain Murray to say farewell [Handwritten original has this at 1045; seems it was postponed to accommodate MT’s meeting with the Korean Ambassador.]

1800

Professor Griffiths and then to Chequers at 1900c

MT Engagement Diary