Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 27 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

Wednesday 27 February 1980

Paymaster General [Angus Maude] [via D.W. (Sir Douglas Wass)] [Re Lobby Briefing]

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Channon [Pay Research & Cash Limits]

Meeting of Ministers [Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw) & Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington). Re: Telephone Interceptions: Sir Robert Armstrong]

Mr. Kendall and Mr. Gillman and Mr. Channon [Civil Service National Staff Side]

Kept free for Censure Debate speech

Professor Milton Friedman and Ministers [Sir Geoffrey Howe, John Biffen, Nigel Lawson, Sir Keith Joseph, Sir Ian Gilmour & Patrick Jenkin. Mrs Rose

Friedman was also present. See Lobby Briefing, 1100 27 Feb 1980]

Dinner: Sir Cyril Black and Free Church Leaders +IG [Ian Gow] - Pinafore Room, Savoy [No dinner or parking for George & Tec]

Returned to No. 10.

[PM paired all day]