Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 17 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

Thursday 17 July 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0930

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

0945

Mr. [John] Anderson

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]

1245

Lord President [Lord Soames] and Chief Whip [Michael Jopling] re Life Peerages

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

After Questions

[Return to No. 10]

1630

Left No. 10 for Northolt

1730

Took off for RAF Valley

1830

Landed and drove to Ty Mawr Farm, Valley

1930

Arrived Treaddur Bay Hotel

Evening free for work on speech

Dined privately

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary