Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 14 April 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 14 April 1986

0830

Hair [Carmen roller]

0915

Kentish Times for photo + Jim Coe

0930

Diary meeting

1015-1045

Farewell call by Soviet Ambassador [Leonid Zamyatin] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] [for farewell call]

1045-1145

Meeting of Ministers [BL: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon], Secretary of State for Transport [Nick Ridley]; [also Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chief Whip [John Wakeham]]

1145

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

1200

1300

Lunch for colleagues

1430

Work on Bagehot papers + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher]

1600

Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1615-1655

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon] (general chat) Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1730-

Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1745-1830

Drinks for MPs + Mr. Alison [Jonathan Aitken, David Amess, Ian Grist, Jerry Hayes, Sir Kenneth Lewis: list in THCR2/6/3/26 part 1 f48] [+Michael Alison: see Alison engagement diary, THCR2/6/3/10]

1850

Depart No. 10 + Mr. Addison [Mark Addison], Mr. Thatcher [Denis Thatcher] and Mr. Ingham [Bernard Ingham]

1900-2000

Arrive: Met by Mr. Norman St. John Stevas

Reception for launching of Bagehot Books, Economist Building

2005-2345

Meeting of Ministers [Libya: Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Secretary of State for Defence [George Younger], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers], Sir Robert Armstrong, Sir Antony Acland, Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chief of Defence Staff [Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse], Mr. Mallaby [Christopher Mallaby], Sir P. Cradock [Sir Percy Cradock], Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks], Mr. Powell [Charles Powell], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd]

To House of Commons

[Supper H/C +MA [Michael Alison]]

[c2130 Look in at Hal Miller’s Patrons Club Dining Room B]

MIDNIGHT

THREE LINE WHIP

0050-0105

Foreign Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks], Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

MT Engagement Diary