Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 21 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

Monday 21 January 1980

0830

Hair

0945

Canadian High Commissioner, Mrs. Jean Wadds [Mr Martin: x3827: Brief by 18.1.80]

1015

Secretaries of State for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph] and Employment [Jim Prior]

1030

Secretaries of State for Industry and Employment plus Mr. Sirs and Mr. Smith

1045

[[Chairman (Lord Thorneycroft), Chief Whip (Michael Jopling) & Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate steel crisis meetings]

1115

[[Chief Whip (Michael Jopling)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate steel crisis meetings]

1200

[[Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington)]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate steel crisis meetings]

1345

Secretaries of State for Industry and Employment plus officials

1415

Sir Charles Villiers and Mr. Scholey

1800

Drink with Sir Leo Pliatzky

2000

Dinner for Sir Kenneth Keith, black tie [[DT away] +CW (Clive Whitmore) & TL (Tim Lankester)]

MT Engagement Diary