Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 2 October 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 2 October 1980

0830

Hair

0900

Chinese Vice Premier and Foreign Minister [Huang Hua]

0930

E Committee [Willie Whitelaw, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Peter Walker, Michael Heseltine, Jim Prior, Sir Keith Joseph, David Howell, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, John Nott, John Biffen]

1100

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] [Lord Thorneycroft 1130 to attend - informal]

1130

Lord Thorneycroft [to wait outside Cabinet]

Drinks for Cabinet in Pillared Room

1300

Lunch with Lord Thorneycroft and others [[CAW (Clive Whitmore) dealing] [NB: No P.S. (Private Secretary’s) Lunch] Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), Chief Whip (Michael Jopling), Ian Gow, Alan Howarth, Gordon Reece, Mr McAlpine]

1500

Mr. Brian Talboys, Acting High Commissioner, and one official

1530

Secretary of State for the Environment [Michael Heseltine] and Minister for Local Government [Tom King] [re Domestic Rates]

MT Engagement Diary