Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 5 March 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 5 March 1980

0900

S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Minister of State CSD [Paul Channon]

1500-1530

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Sir Robert Armstrong [Chairman of BBC Governors]

(Joined at 1520 by Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. Channon)

1800

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

1830

S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins] [[Home Secretary can’t make it]. Sir Robert Armstrong may also have been at this meeting]

1900

Meeting of Ministers [[S/S N.I. (Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey Atkins), LPS (Lord Privy Seal, Sir Ian Gilmour), H/S (Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw): Telephone Interception]. Sir Robert Armstrong may also have been at this meeting]

2030

Dined at the House with Ian Gow

2200

Three Line Whip

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary