Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 20 December 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

Thursday 20 December 1979

0815

Hair

0845

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0900

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]

1100

Left No. 10

1130

Memorial Service for Lord Mountbatten, Doreen, Lady Brabourne, and the Hon. Nicholas Knatchbull at St. Pauls

1300

Lunch in Study and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

Afterwards, Fergus Montgomery - H/C

1600

Meeting of Ministers

1645

Bernard Ingham and Andy Wood for briefing and COI interview

1725

H.E. Herr Hans-Hellmuth Ruete, German Ambassador

1735

Meeting of Ministers

1830

Office Christmas Party

2100

Dined at the House of Commons

2200

Vote

MT Engagement Diary