Wednesday 2 April 1980
0900 OD Committee [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
Secretary of State for Defence [Francis Pym]
1000 Media
1015 Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] (for general talk)
1100-1130 Mr. Jim Scott-Hopkins and the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour]
1145 Sir Hector Laing
Lunch in flat
1445 Meeting of Ministers on economic publicity [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Paymaster
General (Angus Maude), Messrs Ingham, (David) Wolfson, (Clive) Whitmore & TL (Tim Lankester)].]
1545 Meeting of Ministers on British Leyland
1700 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]
1830 Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers]
2000 Kept free for Lord [Michael] Ancram and Mr. Sproat - H/C [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Ian Gow dealing.]
Dined at the House +IG [Ian Gow]
[Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Paired until 2000.]
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