Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 17 January 1980

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): 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

Thursday 17 January 1980

0800

Hair

0830

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0900

S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph], Trade [John Nott] and Lord Strathcona to discuss RADAR

0930

Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow and Sanders

0945

Media

1000

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 in Study and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1830-2000

Parliamentary Lobby Party plus wives +DT - No. 10.

Dined at the House of Commons with IG [Ian Gow]

2200

Vote [3 Line][The words “P.M. paired all day crossed” are crossed out at the bottom of the page]

MT Engagement Diary