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Mar 8, 2017 · Michael Heseltine was the most prominent, controversial, outspoken and effective senior politician of the 1980s and 1990s who never became prime minister. All Sections News you can trust since 1754
Nov 28, 2015 · Michael Heseltine tells me he does not regret his part in those tumultuous events a quarter of a century ago and will not apologise for ousting, with Geoffrey Howe, the longest-serving prime ...
The 1990 Conservative Party leadership election was called on 14 November 1990 following the decision of Michael Heseltine, former defence and environment secretary, to challenge Margaret Thatcher, the incumbent Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, for leadership of the Conservative Party . In the months leading up to the election, Thatcher's ...
Nov 25, 2012 · Heseltine had a minor heart attack in 1993, and will turn 80 next year, but when we meet he has been in his office at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills since 9am, will spend the ...
e. The Westland affair in 1985–86 was an episode in which Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and her Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Heseltine, went public over a cabinet dispute with questions raised about whether the conventions of cabinet government were being observed and about the integrity of senior ...
Mar 13, 2012 · Lord Heseltine, aka Michael Heseltine the lion-maned, mace-wielding Thatcher lieutenant (until that bond ended tearfully in dissoution), has been given the honour on Merseyside today.
Nov 15, 1990 · LONDON, NOV. 14 -- Michael Heseltine declared his candidacy today for leadership of the ruling Conservative Party -- and hence for prime minister -- confronting incumbent Margaret Thatcher with ...
