Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 2 April 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 2 April 1980

0900

OD Committee [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour] Secretary of State for Defence [Francis Pym]

1000

Media

1015

Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] (for general talk)

1100-1130

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

1145

Sir Hector Laing

Lunch in flat

1445

Meeting of Ministers on economic publicity [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Paymaster General (Angus Maude), Messrs Ingham, (David) Wolfson, (Clive) Whitmore & TL (Tim Lankester)]

1545

Meeting of Ministers on British Leyland

1700

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]

1830

Attorney General [Sir Michael Havers]

2000

Kept free for Lord [Michael] Ancram and Mr. Sproat - H/C [Ian Gow dealing]

Dined at the House +IG [Ian Gow]

[Paired until 2000]

MT Engagement Diary