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 5 March 1980

0900   S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Minister of State CSD [Paul Channon]
1500-1530   Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Sir Robert Armstrong [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Chairman of BBC
              Governors.]
              (Joined at 1520 by Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Channon)
1800   Mr. Scott-Hopkins and Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour]
1830   S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Home Secretary can’t make it]. Sir Robert
              Armstrong may also have been at this meeting.]
1900   Meeting of Ministers [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [S/S N.I. (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey
              Atkins), LPS (Lord Privy Seal, Sir Ian Gilmour), H/S (Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw): Telephone Interception]. Sir Robert Armstrong may also have been at
              this meeting.]
2030   Dined at the House with Ian Gow
2200   Three Line Whip
             &nbsp [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired after 2200.]

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