Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 21 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 21 February 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0930

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

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

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

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

1745

[Sir Kenneth Berrill [Re Censure Debate]. Meeting was probably cancelled to accommodate below meeting]

1745

Meeting of non-Cabinet Ministers and Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

1945

Mr. Cyrus Vance [for drink +Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington)]

Dined at the House

2000

[Sir Keith Joseph [Re: Chairmanship of British Steel]]

2200

Two Line Whip: Vote

MT Engagement Diary

Thursday 21 February 1980

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