Monday 3 March 1986
0830
Hair [Flat]
0940
Depart No. 10
1000
Swedish Embassy to sign condolence book for death of Mr. Olof Palme
Return to No. 10
1025
Diary meeting [Handwritten diary had this scheduled originally for 1000, with Mark Addison; apparently cancelled altogether was a meeting at 1030 with Nigel Wicks and Caroline Ryder to discuss MT’s holiday plans]
1105
Lord Young [David Young] + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]
1155
Chief Whip [John Wakeham] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]
1215
Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Lord Privy Seal [John Biffen], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [Norman Tebbit] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10]
1300-1400
Lunch for colleagues [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, 2/6/3/10] [THCR2/6/3/104 Part 2 f93 has planned list: Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tebbit, Rifkind, Wakeham, King]
1445-1500
Secretary of State for Scotland [Malcolm Rifkind] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]
1600-1715
Meeting of Ministers [Rates] [attendance list from No.10 conversation record, 3 March 1986, PREM19/1837 f64: Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Secretaries of State for the Environment [Kenneth Baker] and Transport [Nick Ridley], Chief Secretary [John MacGregor], Mr. Shaw [Giles Shaw] and officials, Mr. William Waldegrave, Chief Whip [John Wakeham], Robin Butler (Treasury), Alex Allan (Treasury), C.J.S. Brearley (Department of the Environment), K. Sheehan (Home Office), Miss C. Egerton (Department of Transport), A.J. Langdon (Cabinet Office); Nigel Wicks] [David Norgrove also present according to diary, although not listed in conversation record]
1725
Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson] + Mr. Norgrove
1800
Syrian Foreign Minister [Farouk al-Sharaa] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]
1840-2000
Drinks with MPs and Mr. Alison No. 10 [THCR 1/3/20 f159, Alistair Burt to MT, 3 Mar 1986 – discussion of Shops Bill] [Richard Body, John Corrie, Roger Gale, Hal Miller, Sir Peter Mills, Richard Ottaway, David Sumberg, Alistair Burt, Michael Alison: [list of attendees THCR2/6/3/26 part 1 f 71]]
Supper in Flat
[To H/C Supper H/C +MA] [Michael Alison]
[2200 2 Line VOTE]
