Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 24 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

Monday 24 March 1980

0815

Hair

0930

Meeting of Ministers on telephone interception [For Sec (Lord Carrington) , Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw) + officials & Sir Robert Armstrong]

1030

[Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw), Chairman (Lord Thorneycroft) & Chief Whip (Michael Jopling) [Political Honours]]

1130-1200

Interview with Woman’s Own [Sally Pearce]

1215

Lord [Burke] Trend

1230

Looked in at Anthony Steen’s lunch for “Thatcher” workers +IG

1300

Returned to No. 10 for lunch

1415

Mr. Van der Post

1445

Mr. du Cann (Civil Service Department)

1530

E [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1700-1815

Meeting of Ministers on British Leyland

1830-2000

Reception for Trilateral Commission +DT

2030

Dinner with the Speaker [George Thomas] at Speaker’s House +DT (black tie)

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary