Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 22 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 22 May 1980

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0925

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

0930

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]

1100

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

1530

[K/f (kept free) for PM to read 1600 meeting papers]

1600

Meeting of Ministers on Europe [Foreign Secretary (Lord Carrington), Chancellor (Sir Geoffrey Howe), M/ Agriculture (Peter Walker), Michael Franklin]

1745

Left for Northolt

1600 onwards

[Running 3 Line: PM paired all day]

1840

Took off for Newcastle

1930

Landed at Newcastle

2000

Arrived Royal County Hotel, Durham

Changed

2020

Walked to Three Tons Hotel, Durham for Reception for Party workers

2200

Arrived back at Royal County Hotel for dinner and overnight stay

MT Engagement Diary