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

Thursday 21 February 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
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   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1600   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1745    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Sir Kenneth Berrill [Re Censure Debate]. Meeting was probably cancelled to
              accommodate below meeting.]
1745   Meeting of non-Cabinet Ministers and Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1945   Mr. Cyrus Vance [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: for drink +Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington).]
              Dined at the House
2000  &nbsp [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Sir Keith Joseph [Re: Chairmanship of British Steel].]
2200   Two Line Whip: Vote

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