Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 6 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

Tuesday 6 May 1980

Breakfast with Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] + team [L/B (Leon Brittan), T/R (Tim Raison), Lord Belstead]

Media

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

Charles Barton to say good-bye (messenger)

Mr. Bruce-Gardyne

Mr. Biggs-Davison and officers of Northern Ireland Committee + S/S Northern Ireland [Humphrey Atkins]

Lunch and Questions briefing

Questions

Statement on Iranian Embassy siege [by Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw)]

Signed book of condolence at Yugoslav Embassy [Josip Broz Tito]

[Patricia Hodgson for Women’s Conference Speech]

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Governor of the Bank of England [Gordon Richardson] [Iran]

Audience

Dinner for Permanent Secretaries

[PM paired all day]