MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR 6/1/2/1
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Thursday 20 December 1979

0815   Hair
0845   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0900   Cabinet [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Hailsham, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, Francis Pym,
              Lord Soames, Jim Prior, Sir Ian Gilmour, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, George Younger, Nicholas
              Edwards, Humphrey Atkins, Patrick Jenkin, Norman St John-Stevas, John Nott, David Howell, Mark Carlisle,
              John Biffen, Angus Maude, Norman Fowler, Michael Jopling, Sir Robert Armstrong]
1100   Left No. 10
1130   Memorial Service for Lord Mountbatten, Doreen, Lady Brabourne, and the Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull at St.
              Pauls
1300   Lunch in Study and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
              Afterwards, Fergus Montgomery - H/C
1600   Meeting of Ministers
1645   Bernard Ingham and Andy Wood for briefing and COI interview
1725   H.E. Herr Hans-Hellmuth Ruete, German Ambassador
1735   Meeting of Ministers
1830   Office Christmas Party
2100   Dined at the House of Commons
2200   Vote

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