Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 3 November 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

Monday 3 November 1980

0830

Hair

1000

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

1045

Meeting of Ministers re Firemen’s pay

1100-1215

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Chairman [Lord Thorneycroft] and Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw]

1220

Interview with Patrick Sergeant of the Daily Mail

1300

Lunch at Carlton Club +IG [Ian Gow] [Lord Boyd-Carpenter]

1500

Mr. Roy Jenkins

1630-1715

Meeting of Ministers re Patriation of Canadian Constitution [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), Lord Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), Chancellor/Duchy (Norman St John-Stevas), LPS (Sir Ian Gilmour) & Chief Whip (Michael Jopling) & RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & Mr Nicholas Ridley MP. For/Sec (Lord Carrington) away]

1715

Chief Secretary [John Biffen] re Lord Mayor’s speech

1730-1830

Rayner Scrutiny of Unemployment Benefits

1830

Sir Derek Rayner (private chat) [general chat re his future. [Sec. Lynne Holmes]]

1930

Mr. Whitmore (Honours)

2030

Mrs. Crawford re Christmas

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary