Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 1 May 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 1 May 1980

[Local Elections]

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0925

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

0930

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

1545

Mr. Enoch Powell - H/C [Ian Gow note of this meeting in THCR 2/6/2/116 has 1645 not 1545]

1700

Sir Ian Bancroft

1700

[Meeting of Ministers [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw) & For Sec (Lord Carrington) & RA (Sir Robert Armstrong), Sir Brian Cubbon, Sir Michael Palliser] [Telecommunications Monopoly]]

1730

Lady Young re Honours and Women’s Conference Speech

1800

Interview with David English (Daily Mail)

MT Engagement Diary

Thursday 1 May 1980

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