Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 19 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 19 March 1980

0830

Maureen Baker - Flat

0900

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

1030

Meeting of Ministers (Europe) [Foreign Sec (Lord Carrington) & Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe)]

1130

Mr. Lankester and Mr. Ingham for Birmingham Chamber of Commerce speech

1200

[Kept free for Central Council Speech]

1500

Meeting of Ministers re EMS [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Foreign Sec (Lord Carrington), Governor (Gordon Richardson) & Sir Robert Armstrong] [+ officials except for Governor [sic]]

1530 onwards

Running Three Line Whip

1600-1900

Visit to the Cabinet Office

Kept free for Central Council speech

[PM paired between 1600 & 1900]

MT Engagement Diary