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 7 February 1980

0830   Hair in Flat [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Paul].]
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
1000   S/S for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] and Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] (at 1015)
1030   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]
1300   Questions Briefing and lunch
1515   Questions
1600 onwards
                 Running Three Line Whip - H/C
1700-1830   Visit to FCO - Park Door Entrance [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Briefing on East/West Relations.]
1915    [Officers of] 1922 Committee, Chancellor of the Duchy [Norman St John-Stevas], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] - H/C
              Dined at the House with Ian Gow
2330   Vote

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