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

Monday 21 April 1980

0830   Hair
1030   Media
1045   Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1130   Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1145   Kept free for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce speech
1200   Meeting of Ministers [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Re Cossiga’s visit].]
1300   Lunch in flat
1330   Left for Birmingham [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: DT to make his own way.]
1535   Arrived Pebble Mill for television and radio interviews
1710   Left Pebble Mill
1740   Arrived Metropole Hotel
1930   Dinner with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce (speech) - Metropole Hotel [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: +DT.
              Speech: “Her Majesty’s Ministers”. Black Tie. [DT in own car] [Requires accommodations].]
2400   Left Metropole Hotel for London
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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