Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 29 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

Tuesday 29 April 1986

0900

Questions briefing

0930

Keep free for GEC speech + Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1100-1310

Meeting of Ministers [Education: Radical options: Secretary of State for Education [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor of Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Lord President [Willie Whitelaw] [for 45 minutes only], Mr. Norgrove [David Norgrove] and Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]]

1310

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Cranley Onslow MP + Mr. Alison [Michael Alison] H/C

1655

Return to No.10

1710-1750

United States Ambassador [Charles Price] + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1935

Depart No.10 + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1945

Arrive: met by Mr. Prior [Jim Prior]

1945 for 2000

GEC Overseas Club Dinner + DT [Denis Thatcher] and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] (Black Tie), The Brewery, Chiswell Street [THCR6/2/2/138 f108, Richards minute, 28 Apr 1986, states MT seated between James Prior and Lord Weinstock]

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