Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 22 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

Tuesday 22 January 1980

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph & John Biffen] [J. Nott away]

Messrs. [Derek] Howe, Gow, Ingham and Sanders

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

Edward Gardner and officers of Home Affairs Committee plus Leon Brittan

Questions briefing and lunch in Study

Questions

Mr. Nicholas Ridley - H/C [for private political talk]

Running Two Line Whip

Drinks Party at John Hannam’s flat +IG [Ian Gow], West Country MPs and wives - 35 Tufton Court, Tufton Street

Afterwards, dined at the House of Commons [+Ian Gow]