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

Thursday 24 July 1980

0900   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
0925   Messrs. Gow, [Derek] Howe, Ingham and Sanders
0930   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   Meeting of Ministers on telecommunications
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1600   Addressed Lobby - H/C
1700   Returned to No. 10
1715   Sir Ray Pennock
1930   Mr. Terence Higgins, MP - H/C
              Dined at the House with Ian Gow
2100   Chief Secretary [John Biffen] and Mr. Terry Burns - H/C
              Two Line Whip: Vote [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: from 1530.]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: PM paired after 2200.]

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