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

Tuesday 29 January 1980

0800   Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph & John Biffen] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [J. Nott away].]
0930   Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
1000   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1300   Questions briefing and lunch in Study
1515   Questions
1530   Mr. du Cann - H/C
1630   Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]
1700 onwards
              Prime Minister Cossiga
1900   Vote - Three Line Whip
1950   Prime Minister Cossiga arrived for
2000   Dinner [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: for Prime Minister Cossiga. Black Tie [DT can’t make it].]

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