Thursday 27 March 1980
[Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Crawf’s (Cynthia Crawford, MT’s personal assistant) 40th B’day].]
0830 Hair
0900 Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930 Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
0940 Sir Ian Bancroft [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Re Sir Jack Rampton’s successor].]
1000 Meeting at H/C [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [PM, H/S (Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw), R/A (Sir Robert
Armstrong), B/C (Bryan Cartledge), L/O (Leader of the Opposition, James Callaghan) and M/Rees (Merlyn Rees)].]
1100 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 Sat in on debate - H/C
1645 Left House of Commons
1900 Met Chancellor Schmidt at RAF Benson
2030 Dinner for Helmut Schmidt - Chequers
Talks
0100 Foreign Secretary [Lord Carrington] and Herr Genscher left for Bledlow
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