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

Thursday 24 January 1980

0830   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0900   John Hoskyns
0930   Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
1000   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]
1245   Looked in at Tessa Jardine-Paterson’s farewell Party
1300   Questions briefing and lunch in Study
1515   Questions
1600   Debate on Nuclear Weapons - H/C
              Dined at the House of Commons [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: +Ian Gow.]
2200   Vote [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: 3 Line.]

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