Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 23 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

Wednesday 23 January 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1030

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] [re: taxing Unemployment Benefit]

1100

E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1630-1730

King Hussein of Jordan and Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington] for tea in the White Drawing Room

1745

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Secretary of State for Social Services [Patrick Jenkin] - H/C [Handwritten original has S/S Health instead of Secretary of State for Social Services. In any case, the person meant was Patrick Jenkin]

1830

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] - H/C

Dined in the flat

2200

Departed No. 10 with Ian Gow

2210

Arrived Grosvenor House Hotel

2210-2400

Looked in at Winter Ball + Ian Gow (short speech) [DT away]

MT Engagement Diary