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

Tuesday 6 May 1980

0800   Breakfast with Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] + team [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: L/B (Leon Brittan), T/R (Tim
              Raison), Lord Belstead.]
0915   Media
0930   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
1000   Charles Barton to say good-bye (messenger)
1015   Mr. Bruce-Gardyne
1200   Mr. Biggs-Davison and officers of Northern Ireland Committee + S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins]
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1530   Statement on Iranian Embassy siege [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: by Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw).]
1600   Signed book of condolence at Yugoslav Embassy [Josip Broz Tito]
1700    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Patricia Hodgson for Women’s Conference Speech.]
1745   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Governor of the Bank of England [Gordon Richardson] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980
              appointment diary: [Iran].]
1830   Audience
2030   Dinner for Permanent Secretaries
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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