Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 11 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

Thursday 11 December 1980

0830

Hair

1000

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

1030

Meeting of Ministers (NISSAN)

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]

1300

Lunch and Questions briefing

1515

Questions

1545

Left H/C for Wales [+DT]

1815

Arrived Cardiff City Hall

Changed in Lady Mayoress’ Parlour

1845

Reception at Lord Mayor’s Parlour

1900

Reception for top table guests and members of the CBI Welsh Council in the Ferrier Hall

1930

Dinner [Annual Dinner Welsh CBI +DT. Assembly Room B, Cardiff City Hall. Speech: Black Tie]

2110

Speeches began

2115-2200

BBC Radio Wales programme broadcast speeches live.

2230

Dinner ended

Drinks in the Ferrier Hall

1115

Left for Post House Hotel [Overnight stay at Cardiff]

[PM paired all day]

MT Engagement Diary