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

Thursday 20 March 1980

               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Mike P (Pattison) away].]
0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
1000   Secretary of State for Defence [Francis Pym]
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
1530   Mr. Michael Shaw, MP - H/C
1600   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John
              Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1800   Meeting of Non-Cabinet Ministers and Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1900   Kept free for Central Council speech
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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