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

Wednesday 23 January 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1030   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: re: taxing Unemployment Benefit.]
1100   E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John
              Nott, John Biffen]
1630-1730   King Hussein of Jordan and Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington] for tea in the White Drawing Room
1745   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Secretary of State for Social Services [Patrick Jenkin] - H/C [Material from handwritten original of the
              1980 appointment diary: Handwritten original has S/S Health instead of Secretary of State for Social Services. In any case, the person meant was Patrick
              Jenkin.]
1830   Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] - H/C
              Dined in the flat
2200   Departed No. 10 with Ian Gow
2210   Arrived Grosvenor House Hotel
2210-2400   Looked in at Winter Ball + Ian Gow (short speech) [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [DT away].]

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