Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 1 August 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

Friday 1 August 1980

Media

Hugo Young for an interview

Minister of State for Consumer Affairs [Sally Oppenheim] re Section II of Competition Act

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe], Chief Secretary [John Biffen], Sir A. Rawlinson, Mr. Hansford and Mr. Kerr re defence spending

Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw]

Lunch in flat

Met by Mr. Jim Coates at the Admiralty to visit Admiralty House Flats [+CP (Colin Peterson) & Joan Porter]

Meeting with Mr. Peterson [to discuss paint colours. Handwritten original has this meeting at 1515]

Margaret Bateman to say farewell [Handwritten original has this meeting at 1530]

Diary and tours meeting

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

Left for Chequers