Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 19 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

Monday 19 May 1980

0830

Hair

1000

Media

1010

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington]

1045

Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1115

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] to discuss BBC chairmanship and interception

1125

Visit to Portuguese Prime Minister [Francisco de Sá Carneiro] at the Carlton Tower Hotel

1200

Talks

1315

Lunch for Portuguese Foreign Minister (Portuguese Prime Minister unable to attend) and others

1500-1515

[Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington) & Sir Robert Armstrong [Suez Records]]

1530 onwards

[Running Three Line]

1600-1800

Meeting of Ministers (Public Sector Pay Policy) - H/C [Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Industry (Sir Keith Joseph), Mr Channon, Employment (Jim Prior), Environment (Michael Heseltine), Social Services (Patrick Jenkin), Chief Sec (John Biffen), RA (Sir Robert Armstrong), JH (John Hoskyns), Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw), Mr Ibbs]

1800

Meeting of Ministers (Sanctions on Iran) - H/C

1830

[Looked in at Lady Thorneycroft’s party for WNAC +Ian Gow. 42c Eaton Square]

1930

Kept free for Women’s Conference Speech: Patricia Hodgson

Paired after midnight/Dined at the House

MT Engagement Diary