MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR6/1/2/2
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

Monday 21 July 1980

0830   Hair
1000   Media
1015   Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1045   Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1145   Photographic session with People Weekly [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [DT will have photo if he is here].]
1200   Kept free for Mr. Ingham [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Alan Watkins].]
1315   Lunch for Small Businessmen
1500   Left for House of Commons
1515   Meeting with the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Callaghan [European Commissionerships - see THCR 3/2/39]
1550   Returned to No. 10
1630   Leader of the House [Norman St John-Stevas]
1700   Mr. Scott-Hopkins and Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour]
1730   Lord Boyle
1820   Mrs. Michael Heseltine [Anne Heseltine]
1830   Cocktail Party for members and wives
2015   Dined at the House with Ian Gow
2115   Looked in at Nuclear Advisory Panel Dinner - Admiralty House
2200   Three Line Whip: Vote
2330    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: VOTE.]

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