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

Monday 4 August 1980

              Queen Mother’s Birthday
0830   Hair
1000   Media
1015   Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft]
1030   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]
              Lunch in flat
1430   Meeting of Ministers [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Defence (Francis Pym), Chief
              Secretary (John Biffen), Sir A. Rawlinson & Sir Frank Cooper].]
1630   OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]
1750   Mr. Victor Goodhew [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [re his visit to the Virgin Islands].]
1800   1922 Executive [Edward Du Cann, Paul Bryan, Charles Morrison, Ian Gow], Cabinet Room
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Paired all day.]

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