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

Wednesday 27 February 1980

0915   Paymaster General [Angus Maude] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [via D.W. (Sir Douglas Wass)] [Re Lobby Briefing].]
0930   Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Channon [Material from handwritten original of the 1980
              appointment diary: [Pay Research & Cash Limits].]
1030   Meeting of Ministers [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw) & Foreign Secretary (Lord
              Carrington). Re: Telephone Interceptions: Sir Robert Armstrong].]
1130   Mr. Kendall and Mr. Gillman and Mr. Channon [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Civil Service National Staff Side].]
1200   Kept free for Censure Debate speech
1800   Professor Milton Friedman and Ministers [Sir Geoffrey Howe, John Biffen, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Sir Ian Gilmour & Patrick Jenkin. Mrs Rose
              Friedman was also present. See Lobby Briefing, 1100 27 Feb 1980]
1945   Dinner: Sir Cyril Black and Free Church Leaders +IG [Ian Gow] - Pinafore Room, Savoy [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: No
              dinner or parking for George & Tec.]
2100   Returned to No. 10.
             &nbsp [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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