Monday 12 January 1981
House returned
0830 Hair
1000 Media
1015 Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]
1045 Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] and Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft]
1115 Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft]
1200 Messrs. Emery, Aitken, Whiteman and Evans [‘Whiteman’ is plainly an error for ‘Wightman’. This was a
meeting with Political Editors. Jim Wightman occupied that position at the Daily Telegraph.
Information
from Sir Bernard Ingham]
1300 Lunch in flat
1445 Meeting of Ministers re Energy prices
1600 Secretary of State for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph] and John Hoskyns re British Leyland +RTA [Sir Robert
Armstrong], Mr. Ibbs and Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe]
1715 Tea with Mr. Speaker [George Thomas] - H/C
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