Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 2 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

Wednesday 2 July 1980

0930

Richard Allen, Foreign Affairs Adviser to Mr. Reagan and William Casey, Campaign Director to Mr. Reagan

1015

Secretary of State for Defence [Francis Pym] [+First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Henry Leach] [Captain Salt]

1100-1130

Mr. Suraj Paul

1150

Left for the House of Commons

1200

Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Callaghan - H/C [Presidency of EEC Commission]

1230

Lord Chancellor [Lord Hailsham]

1300

Lunch with Ministers [Chairmen of Cabinet Committees]

1430

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] and Mr. [Terry] Burns [Re Thursday’s Cabinet]

1525

To House of Commons

1530

[S/ N. Ireland (Humphrey Atkins) Statement]

1600

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

1700-1900

Meeting with European Members followed by Drinks + Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Lord Carrington], Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft], Sir A. Royle and Mr. Edward Bickham

2030

Meeting with Civil Service Staff Side

2130

Dined at the House with Ian Gow

2200

Vote: Three Line

2210

Secretary of State for Employment [Jim Prior] - H/C

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary