Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Wed 10 December 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

Wednesday 10 December 1980

Lady Pike [Chairman: WRVS (Women’s Royal Voluntary Service) to talk about voluntary services]

Mr. Ito, Japanese Foreign Minister

Kept free for speech

Left No. 10

Central Office Media Christmas Party - 32 Smith Square

Lunch with the Anti-Terrorist Branch +DT and CW [Clive Whitmore] - New Scotland Yard [DT will make own way to lunch]

Left for H/C

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

Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

Audience

Looked in at Chief Whip’s [Michael Jopling] Party - 12 Downing Street

Supper in flat for Welsh speech

[PM paired all day]