MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR 6/1/2/2
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. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 21 January 1980

0830   Hair
0945   Canadian High Commissioner, Mrs. Jean Wadds [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Mr Martin: x3827: Brief by 18.1.80].]
1015   Secretaries of State for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph] and Employment [Jim Prior]
1030   Secretaries of State for Industry and Employment plus Mr. Sirs and Mr. Smith
1045    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Chairman (Lord Thorneycroft), Chief Whip (Michael Jopling) & Home Secretary
              (Willie Whitelaw)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate steel crisis meetings.]
1115    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Chief Whip (Michael Jopling)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate steel
              crisis meetings.]
1200    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to
              accommodate steel crisis meetings.]
1345   Secretaries of State for Industry and Employment plus officials
1415   Sir Charles Villiers and Mr. Scholey
1800   Drink with Sir Leo Pliatzky
2000   Dinner for Sir Kenneth Keith, black tie [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [DT away] +CW (Clive Whitmore) & TL (Tim
              Lankester).]

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