Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 24 March 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.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 24 March 1986

0830

Hair

0945

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Lord President, Chairman, Chief Whip, Secretary of State for Trade, Mr. Unwin, Chancellor of Exchequer, Mr. Norgrove (Willie Whitelaw, Norman Tebbit, John Wakeham, Paul Channon, Brian Unwin, Nigel Lawson, David Norgrove)]

1115

Sir Philip Moore and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] [THCR6/2/2/135 f176 shows this was a farewell call]

1155

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Mr. Wicks [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1200

MISC 126

1300

Lunch with colleagues [list of planned invitees in THCR2/6/3/104 Part 2 f94: Willie Whitelaw, Nigel Lawson, John Biffen, Norman Tebbit, John Wakeham, Ken Baker, Geoffrey Howe] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1430-1600

"The Times" [Geoffrey Smith] + Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham]

1630-1715

Mr. Relli [from South Africa] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] > [via Mr Spiro] [some material closed under FOI at this point, possibly car registration plate]

1830-2000

Reception for Industry Year + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher]

To House of Commons

Supper with Mr. Alison H/C

2100

Wind-ups

2200

THREE LINE WHIP

MT Engagement Diary