Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 31 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 31 July 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

0925

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

0930

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]

Afterwards: Meeting of Ministers re memorial to commemorate Nazi Holocaust [S/ Defence (Francis Pym), Environment (Michael Heseltine), & Home Secretary (Willie Whitelaw)]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

After statements, speech on the Loyal Address to The Queen Mother - H/C

1700

Kept free for 1922 Committee speech - H/C

1800

Addressed 1922 Committee - H/C

1830 onwards

Looked in at Private Secretaries party - No. 10

Dined at the House with Ian Gow

2200

Two Line Whip: Vote

2210

Sir Ian Percival - H/C [Private matter]

[PM paired after 2200]

MT Engagement Diary