Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 July 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 1 July 1980

0800

Breakfast [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph, John Biffen & John Nott]

0900

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

0930

Mr. Walter Salomon and Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and S/S Industry [Sir Keith Joseph]

1030

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

1600

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

Minister of Agriculture [Peter Walker], Mr. Buchanan-Smith, Mr. Franklin and Mr. Younger [Re Fish Policy]

1830

Maureen Baker and Lady Tilney - Flat

1900

Three Line: Vote

1910

Looked in at Julian Amery’s

1945

Dinner: Plowden Group +TL [Tim Lankester] - Bridgwater House, Cleveland Row, St. James’s. [[Dinner & parking for George & Tec] Informal]

2200

Two Line Whip [PM may vote]

2210

[Meeting on MP’s pay [CDL (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Norman St John-Stevas), Mr du Cann]]

MT Engagement Diary