Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 27 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

Thursday 27 March 1980

[Crawf’s (Cynthia Crawford, MT’s personal assistant) 40th B’day]

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0930

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

0940

Sir Ian Bancroft [Re Sir Jack Rampton’s successor]

1000

Meeting at H/C [PM, H/S (Home Secretary, Willie Whitelaw), R/A (Sir Robert Armstrong), B/C (Bryan Cartledge), L/O (Leader of the Opposition, James Callaghan) and M/Rees (Merlyn Rees)]

1100

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]

1300

Lunch and Questions Briefing

1515

Questions

1530

Sat in on debate - H/C

1645

Left House of Commons

1900

Met Chancellor Schmidt at RAF Benson

2030

Dinner for Helmut Schmidt - Chequers

Talks

0100

Foreign Secretary [Lord Carrington] and Herr Genscher left for Bledlow

MT Engagement Diary