Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 5 February 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 5 February 1980

0800

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

0930

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

0945-1045

Peter Mills and officers of Agriculture Committee, and Mr. Walker

1045-1115

Dr. Mock, Conservative Leader of Austrian Party

1115

Mr. Jim Scott-Hopkins and Lord Privy Seal [Sir Ian Gilmour]

1145

Sir John Methven

1300

Lunch in Study and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1550

Lord Drumalbyn [Niall Macpherson] collected PM and IG [Ian Gow] from H/C

1600

Addressed Association of Independent Unionist Peers - H/L [+IG (Ian Gow)]

1715

Meeting with BISPA [& S/Ss for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph) & Employment (Jim Prior)]

1830

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Sir Keith Joseph

1930

Dinner in honour of Sir Ronald Millar +DT (informal) at 8 Wilfred Street [Dinner & parking for George & Tec]

2150

Departed Wilfred Street

2200

Three Line Whip

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary