Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 7 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

Thursday 7 February 1980

0830

Hair in Flat [Paul]

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0930

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

1000

S/S for Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] and Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] (at 1015)

1030

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

Questions Briefing and lunch

1515

Questions

1600 onwards

Running Three Line Whip - H/C

1700-1830

Visit to FCO - Park Door Entrance [Briefing on East/West Relations]

1915

[Officers of] 1922 Committee, Chancellor of the Duchy [Norman St John-Stevas], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] - H/C

Dined at the House with Ian Gow

2330

Vote

MT Engagement Diary