Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 16 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 16 April 1980

0930

Free for British Press Awards Speech

1100

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka [Ranasinghe Premadasa]: photocall

1130 onwards

Kept free for speech

1230

Lunch: present British Press Awards +BI [Bernard Ingham] - Savoy [Arrive River Entrance. Speech: 10 minutes]

1500

Left Savoy

1545

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]

1645

Dr. Henry Kissinger

1745

Secretary of State for Wales [Nicholas Edwards] (Managing Director of Welsh Development Agency) [Handwritten original has this meeting at approx. 1900]

1910

Three Line Whip [Handwritten original has “Three Line: VOTE” at approx. 1830 and “Dine H/C +Ian Gow” thereafter]

1920

Returned to No. 10

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary