Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 26 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

Wednesday 26 March 1986

0900-1000

Nick Lloyd: Editor of Daily Express + Mr. Ingham

1000

David Harris MP + Peter Morrison [closure of tin mine] Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] and Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher] [Norgrove in place of Flesher]

1030-1145

Chairman [Norman Tebbit] and Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne] [1030-1100, Wicks in place of Sherbourne]

1215

Drinks with MPs + Mr. Alison [Nicholas Baker, William Benyon, Kenneth Carlisle, Eric Cockeram, Greg Knight, David Mudd, Philip Oppenheim, Andrew Stewart: [THCR2/6/3/26 part 1 f53]] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1255

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1300

Lunch with IEA + Mr. Norgrove at 2 Lord North Street [THCR6/2/2/135 for 163, Ryder minute, 24 Mar 1986: MT agreed to attend a lunch to celebrate the launch of Sir Alan Walters’s book Britain’s Economic Renaissance; Lord Harris of High Cross was also present, with a number of financial journalists]

Return to No. 10

1500-1530

Mr. Nicholas Elliott + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1600

Sir Alan Walters and Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove]

1645

Chief Whip [John Wakeham] and Lord President [Willie Whitelaw]

1735

[1730]

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1815

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] and Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne]

1820

Arrive: met by Lord Thomas [Hugh Thomas]

1830-2000

CPS AGM + Mr. Alison and Mr. Sherbourne at Institute of Civil Engineering

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