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 26 March 1980

0900   Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] + Lord Diplock
0930   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]
1030   Briefing Meeting for Schmidt visit
1200   S/S Energy [David Howell] (to discuss Sir Jack Rampton’s successor)
1230   Sir John Graham - HM Ambassador, Iran
1300    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Lunch - No. 10.]
1445   Sir Kenneth Berrill
1530   Budget Statement
1830   Audience
2000   S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Home Secretary can’t make it].]
              Dined at the House of Commons [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: +Ian Gow.]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired after 2200.]

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