MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR6/1/2/2
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

Thursday 17 April 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
1015   Meeting of Ministers (British Leyland)
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   Bernard Ingham (for Lobby) - H/C
1600   Lobby
1700   S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] re Mr. [Enoch] Powell - H/C [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: +MA (Michael
              Alexander).]
              Dined at the House of Commons [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: +Ian Gow.]
              Kept free for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce speech
2200   Three Line Whip

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