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

Monday 24 March 1980

0815   Hair
0930   Meeting of Ministers on telephone interception [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [For Sec (Lord Carrington) , Home Sec
              (Willie Whitelaw) + officials & Sir Robert Armstrong].]
1030&nbsp   [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw), Chairman (Lord Thorneycroft) & Chief Whip (Michael
              Jopling) [Political Honours].]
1130-1200   Interview with Woman’s Own [Sally Pearce]
1215   Lord [Burke] Trend
1230   Looked in at Anthony Steen’s lunch for “Thatcher” workers +IG
1300   Returned to No. 10 for lunch
1415   Mr. Van der Post
1445   Mr. du Cann (Civil Service Department)
1530   E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott,
              John Biffen]
1700-1815   Meeting of Ministers on British Leyland
1830-2000   Reception for Trilateral Commission +DT
2030   Dinner with the Speaker [George Thomas] at Speaker’s House +DT (black tie)
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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