Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 5 June 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 5 June 1980

0815

Hair

0845

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0900

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

0915

OD [Willie Whitelaw, Lord Carrington, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Lord Soames, Lord Hailsham, Francis Pym, John Nott, Sir Ian Gilmour]

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]

1145

Chairman of the Party [Lord Thorneycroft] joined Cabinet

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1600

Argentinian Finance Minister [Martinez De Hoz, with Nicholas Ridley] - H/C

1615

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]

1730-1900

Reception for English Association Football team prior to European Championships +DT

1900

Vote

1930

Supper in flat

2000

Left No. 10 and drove to Nantwich

Overnight at Rookery Hall, Worleston

[PM paired after 1900]

2130

[Beating Retreat]

MT Engagement Diary