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 17 July 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0930   Mssrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
0945   Mr. [John] Anderson
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]
1245   Lord President [Lord Soames] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] re Life Peerages
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
After Questions    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Return to No. 10.]
1630   Left No. 10 for Northolt
1730   Took off for RAF Valley
1830   Landed and drove to Ty Mawr Farm, Valley
1930   Arrived Treaddur Bay Hotel
              Evening free for work on speech
              Dined privately
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired all day.]

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