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 15 May 1980

0715    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Trooping Rehearsal].]
0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0925   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders
0930   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1030   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]
1230   Meeting of Ministers (S/Ss Defence [Francis Pym], Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins], Sir F. Cooper, Mr. Stowe, Sir R. Armstrong)
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1945   Dinner: 1979 Intake +IG [Ian Gow] - St. Stephens Club (informal)
2200   Three Line Vote

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