Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 18 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

Tuesday 18 March 1980

0800

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

0915

Roger Carter, Duty Clerk, to say goodbye

0930

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

0940

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] (telephone interception)

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]

1230

Lord Soames

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Mr. Russell Fairgrieve, MP, to discuss Scotland - H/C

1530 onwards

Running Three Line Whip

1615

Terence Higgins, MP.

1645

[[Leader of the Opposition (James Callaghan)] [Telephone Interception] - H/C]

1830

Audience

Dined House of Commons +IG [Ian Gow]

[PM paired between 1800 & 2000]

MT Engagement Diary