Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 4 February 1986

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/8
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; PREM32/20, covering 1986, can be read here. Correspondence on the buffet supper with the No Turning Back Group can be read here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Tuesday 4 February 1986

0900

Questions Briefing Team

0930

Lord Young + Mr. Norgrove

1000

Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Sir Robert Armstrong and Mr. Wicks

1115

Diary meeting

1200

Meeting of Ministers (Public expenditure. Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove])

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions H/C

1545

Warren Hawksley M.P., + Mr. Stanley MP [John Stanley], and Mr. Powell (Armoured Personnel Carriers) H/C

1615

Return to No. 10

1800-1830

Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1950

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison Mr. Alison [Michael Alison]

2000

Dinner with "No Turning Back" Group - informal, + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison], at Institute of Economic Affairs, Lord North Street. [SS = Stephen Sherbourne] [attendees in THCR6/2/3/25 f35: authors of No Turning Back - Michael Brown, Christopher Chope, Michael Fallon, Michael Forsyth, Neil Hamilton, Gerald Howarth, Robert Jones, Edward Leigh, Peter Lilley, Francis Maude, Michael Portillo, Angela Rumbold, Ian Twinn (an author, but did not attend); others attending Alan Howarth, Eric Forth, Lord Harris of High Cross]

2200

TWO LINE WHIP H/C

PAIRED AFTER 2200

MT Engagement Diary