Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 26 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 26 June 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

Statement by the Secretary of State for Industry [Sir Keith Joseph]

1715

Mr. Huber Matos and Mr. Penny (interpreter)

1800

Flora Lewis of the New York Times

1845

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] re Chairmanship of BBC

2000

Dinner: 1970 Intake +DT and IG [Ian Gow] - St. Stephens [[via John Wilkinson] Informal]

2215

Chancellor of the Duchy [Norman St John-Stevas], Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] and Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] +IG [Ian Gow] - H/C [Ian Gow’s note of this meeting omits Thorneycroft, but adds Du Cann, Paul Bryan and Charles Morrison: see THCR 2/6/2/114]

MT Engagement Diary