Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 21 July 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 21 July 1986

0830

Hair

1000

Diary Meeting

1030

Meeting of colleagues [business] + Mr. Wicks [Nigel Wicks]

1100

Meet Henry Tunney + Mr. Flesher [Tim Flesher]

1110

To Conservative Central Office + Messrs Alison [Michael Alison] and Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne]

1115

Chairman [Norman Tebbit]

1130

Strategy Group

Lord President [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Home Secretary [Douglas Hurd], Party Chairman [Norman Tebbit], Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

Also present: Mr. Alison [Michael Alison], Professor Griffiths [Brian Griffiths], Mr. Sherbourne [Stephen Sherbourne], Mr. Jeffrey Archer, Mr. Hal Miller MP, Mr. Michael Dobbs, Sir Anthony Garner, Sir Christopher Lawson, Mr. John Lacy, Mr. Harvey Thomas, Mr. John Desborough, Mr. Keith Britto, Mr. Harris [Robin Harris]

Apologies: Foreign Secretary

1300

Return to No. 10

Lunch in Flat

1430

Sir Laurens Van der Post + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1530

E(A) (Inner Cities) +

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Nigel Lawson], Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [Norman Tebbit], Secretary of State for the Environment [Nicholas Ridley], Chief Secretary, Treasury [John MacGregor], Secretary of State for Education and Science [Kenneth Baker], Minister of State, Home Office [David Waddington], Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DHSS [Raymond Whitney], Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards], Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [Michael Jopling], Paymaster General [Kenneth Clarke], Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [Paul Channon]

Also present: Parliamentary Secretary, Treasury [John Wakeham], Mr. John Patten MP, Mr. Michael Ancram

Secretariat: Sir Robert Armstrong, Mr. J. B. Unwin [Brian Unwin], Mr. A. J. Wiggins Mr. M. J. Eland

1720

Sir Antony Acland and Mr. Powell [Charles Powell] (to say farewell)

1755-1850

Sir John Leahy, High Commissioner for Australia + Mr. Powell [Charles Powell]

1900

Change

Depart No. 10

1915 for 1930

Finchley Westminster Forum Dinner + DT [Denis Thatcher]. Black Tie, H/C Dining Room

PAIRED ALL DAY

MT Engagement Diary