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 22 December 1980

0830   Hair
1000   Meeting: sales to UAE [United Arab Emirates] [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Defence].]
1030  &nbsp [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Media.]
1045    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Tours meeting.]
1130   Baroness Young [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: for general chat.]
1200   Sir James Goldsmith
1230    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: John Vereker for News of the World article.]
              Lunch in flat
1400   Meeting of Ministers re nationalised industries financing and effect on PSBR [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: S/ Industry
              (Sir Keith Joseph), Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Energy (David Howell), Wass, Ryrie, Carey, Maitland.]
1500   Meeting of Ministers (Austin Pearce, Sir Frederick Page, Lord Strathcona and Sir Frank Cooper)
1545   Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] and Tom Boardman [Ian Gow note in THCR 2/6/2/16 Part 2]
1600   Mr. Ray Whitney, MP [+Ian Gow, David Wolfson & Clive Whitmore. RW urging a PM’s Department - account in THCR 2/6/2/138 Part 2. Whitmore timed
              meeting as beginning 1630]
1630   Professor Brian Griffiths, Mr. Middleton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] (monetary policy)
1730   Meeting of Ministers: Foreign Secretary [Lord Carrington] and S/S Defence [Francis Pym] re SAS

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