MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR6/1/2/2
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 12 February 1980

0800    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Breakfast].] [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]
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]
1200   Mr. Morrison and officers of Constitution Committee and Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham]
1300   Lunch in Study and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1530   Lord Justice General - H/C
1600   Meeting of Ministers [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Strikes & Supplementary Benefits].] - H/C
1815   Departed for Buckingham Palace
1830   Audience
              Returned to the House of Commons to change [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: According to the handwritten original, MT
              returned to No. 10 to change.]
2030   Dinner in the Speaker’s apartments in honour of The Queen Mother [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Black Tie. Queen
              Mother will arrive at 2015.]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired 1800-2030.]

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