Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 20 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 20 December 1985

0850

News of the World Photo + Mike Horne - Front Hall

0900

Professor Griffiths + Mr. Norgrove

0930

Meeting of Ministers + Mr. Wicks [GCHQ: Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Secretary of State for Employment [Lord Young], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Mr. Luce, Mr. Marychurch, Sir Robert Armstrong] [Handwritten original has Ld President (Willie Whitelaw), Mr Luce and Chief Whip (John Wakeham) crossed out.]

1050

Lord Young + Mr. Norgrove

1130-1230

Sir P. Cradock + CDP [Charles Powell]

1230

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Wicks

1355

Lunch in Flat

1500

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit] + Mr. Sherbourne

[1600

Stuart Sexton + Mr. Alison]

1645

Tessa Gaisman to say farewell

[1700-1730

John Selwyn Gummer]

1730-1745

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove [No.10]

1745-1815

Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph] + Mr. Wicks

1815-1830

Mr. Powell

1830

Mr. Wicks

1940

To Chequers

2040

Arrived Chequers

2100

Supper alone

Worked on boxes until midnight

MT Engagement Diary