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 30 October 1980

0830   Hair
0900   Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow Ingham and Sanders
0920   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
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]
1300   Lunch and Questions briefing
1515   Questions
1630 onwards
              Running two line whip
1600-1700   Schools Inspectorate Meeting - H/C
1700    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Meeting of Ministers - S/ Industry (Sir Keith Joseph) & Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe)
              via TL (Tim Lankester): Not yet organized 28/10 - H/C].]
1725   Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
2145   To H/C
              Vote
2345   Returned to No. 10.

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