Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 8 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 8 July 1980

Breakfast (Mr. Nott away) [Sir Geoffrey Howe, Sir Keith Joseph & John Biffen]

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

Dr. Albrecht: Minister President of Lower Saxony

Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] and Mr. McAlpine re Central Office [No papers]

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw] re Mr. Marlow - Immigration

John Loveridge & officers of Small Business Committee, + Mr. Mitchell and Sir Keith Joseph

Lunch and Questions briefing

Questions

Mr. Marlow and nine Members to discuss immigration - H/C

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

[Admiral & Mrs George coming to see DT]

Meeting with Peter Young and Federation of Conservative Students + Mr. Bowis and photographer - Mr Griffith Radburn

S/S for Education [Mark Carlisle] joined meeting above

Dinner with Sir Derek Rayner - 3 Hamilton Terrace +DT [Dinner for George & Tec]

[PM paired after 1815: 3 Line from 1530]