Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 5 November 1979

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/1
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. The text differs in places from a second MS text of the diary at THCR 6/1/1/30, which probably derived from MT’s office at the House of Commons: elements from that second document have been added to this online version where they add material of substance (and explicitly noted as such).
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 5 November 1979

0830

Hair

1000

MISC 22

1045

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1115-1145

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1200-1245

Bill Clark and Finance Officers

1245

Media briefing

1300

Lunch with David Wolfson

1415

Sir Robert Armstrong and Mr. Wade-Gery

1430

OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]

1730

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1830-2000

Reception for Deputy Central Office Agents and staff

2015

Dined with Ian Gow - House of Commons

2145

Secretary of State for Employment [Jim Prior] - H/C

2200

Three line whip - Education Bill

2215

Secretary of State for Defence [Francis Pym], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], and the Chief Secretary [John Biffen] - H/C

MT Engagement Diary