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 16 April 1980

0930   Free for British Press Awards Speech
1100   Prime Minister of Sri Lanka [Ranasinghe Premadasa] : photocall
1130 onwards
              Kept free for speech
1230   Lunch: present British Press Awards +BI [Bernard Ingham] - Savoy [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Arrive River
              Entrance. Speech: 10 minutes.]
1500   Left Savoy
1545   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]
1645   Dr. Henry Kissinger
1745   Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards] (Managing Director of Welsh Development Agency) [Material from handwritten original of the 1980
              appointment diary: Handwritten original has this meeting at approx. 1900.]
1910   Three Line Whip [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Handwritten original has “Three Line: VOTE” at approx. 1830 and
              “Dine H/C +Ian Gow” thereafter.]
1920   Returned to No. 10
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired after 2200.]

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