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

Wednesday 16 July 1980

0840   Left for Central Office with Mr. Gow
0845-1000   Visited Central Office, 32 Smith Square
1100   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]
1230   Meeting of Ministers to discuss compensation for aircraft and shipbuilding nationalisation
1615   President Nimeiri of Sudan for tea [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: According to handwritten original, this meeting was
              cancelled.]
1830   Kept free for Welsh Conference Speech [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: John Hoskyns & Ronnie Millar.]
              Looked in at GLC Reception, County Hall
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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