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

Thursday 24 April 1980

0830   Hair
0930   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
0945   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]
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]
1245   Mrs. Kennedy [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [wife of hostage].]
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1630   Delegation from City of Hull + Minister for Agriculture [Peter Walker]
1715   Lord Hunt [Sir John Hunt]
1730   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John
              Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1900   Three Line Whip: Vote
1930   News of the World Interview: Rosalie Shann +BI [Bernard Ingham]

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