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

Tuesday 18 March 1980

0800   Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]
0915   Roger Carter, Duty Clerk, to say goodbye
0930   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
0940   Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] (telephone interception)
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]
1230   Lord Soames
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1530   Mr. Russell Fairgrieve, MP, to discuss Scotland - H/C
1530 onwards
              Running Three Line Whip
1615   Terence Higgins, MP.
1645    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Leader of the Opposition (James Callaghan)] [Telephone Interception] - H/C.]
1830   Audience
              Dined House of Commons +IG [Ian Gow]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired between 1800 & 2000.]

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