1. Michael Heseltine criticised the Coalition's policy on Europe, but he does support the tightening of immigration laws.
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1. Michael Heseltine criticised the Coalition's policy on Europe, but he does support the tightening of immigration laws.
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3. In 1972 Michael Heseltine was a strong supporter of Heath, who was suffering from an open rebellion against his leadership of the Conservative party by Enoch Powell and Ronald Bell.
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5. Michael Heseltine built a housing estate at Tenterden, Kent which failed to sell and was beset with repair problems until after his election to Parliament, [2] founded the magazine publishing company Haymarket in collaboration with another Oxford friend Clive Labovitch and early in the 1960s acquired the famous magazine Man About Town whose title he shortened to About Town then simply Town.
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6. Michael Heseltine was born in Swansea in Wales, the son of Rupert Heseltine, a factory owner and Eileen Ray.
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13. Michael Heseltine had almost daily dealings with the industrialist Arnold Weinstock, Head of GEC—as transport minister Heseltine had once summed him in to the ministry to ask why the electronic signs on the motorway, built by GEC, did not work properly.
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15. Michael Heseltine mocked Shadow Chancellor John Smith's "prawn cocktail offensive" to try to butter up City opinion.
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18. In 1968 Margaret Thatcher became Michael Heseltine's boss for a year; he found her "embarrassingly rude".
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19. Michael Heseltine snagged a new press nickname to go with the job—"Lion King" instead of "Tarzan.
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20. Michael Heseltine is one of the signatories of a statement by senior Conservatives calling for a second referendum over Brexit.
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22. Michael Heseltine criticised the Coalition's policy on Europe, but he did support the tightening of immigration laws.
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23. Michael Heseltine was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.
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25. Michael Heseltine played an important role in taking charge of the Millennium Exhibition in Greenwich and ensuring that it happened, even having a meeting with Tony Blair, Leader of the Opposition, in January 1997 to agree that a Labour Government would back it.
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33. Michael Heseltine was thought by many pundits to be on course to beat her in the second ballot as many Conservative MPs were now rumoured to be ready to switch support from Thatcher and only 27 would had to have done so to give Heseltine the overall majority he would need in the second ballot.
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34. Michael Heseltine was being quietly urged to challenge Thatcher for the party leadership by David Mellor, the Arts Minister, but in a carefully worded formula Heseltine had repeatedly insisted that he could "not foresee.
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35. Michael Heseltine clashed bitterly at this time with his former friend Nicholas Ridley.
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37. Michael Heseltine was in close touch with President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who paid a 3-hour visit to his Victoria office, diplomats Nicholas Henderson and Antony Acland and economist Christopher Johnson, who is thought to have persuaded him of the merits of European monetary union.
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42. Michael Heseltine had failed to drum up enough support among possible allies like Tebbit, Howe, Walker, Norman Fowler and Tom King.
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43. Michael Heseltine raised his concerns with Tebbit, Whitelaw and John Wakeham.
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44. Michael Heseltine was as angry as Thatcher at the US invasion of Grenada, a Commonwealth country.
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46. Michael Heseltine was appointed in January 1983, with the backing of Nott and Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson.
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47. Michael Heseltine faced initial suspicion from Labour-led Merseyside Council, but got on well with Sir Trevor Jones, Liberal leader of Liverpool City Council.
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48. Michael Heseltine was already chairman of the Merseyside Partnership, set up his predecessor Peter Shore, to channel government money into Liverpool.
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49. Michael Heseltine resisted demands by Leon Brittan, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury with whom he already enjoyed a somewhat antagonistic relationship, that central government have power to cap the spending of local authorities.
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51. Michael Heseltine was a convert to the sale of council houses, a policy pioneered by some Conservative local authorities, eg.
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54. Michael Heseltine toyed with standing himself for the second ballot, but voted for Whitelaw.
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60. Michael Heseltine had almost daily dealings with the industrialist Arnold Weinstock, Head of GEC—as transport minister Heseltine had once summed him in to the ministry to ask why the electronic signs on the motorway, built by GEC, did not work properly.
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63. Michael Heseltine appointed Cecil Parkinson, whom he had met on an accountancy course in the mid-1950s, as his Parliamentary Private Secretary, ostensibly on the grounds that he knew even less about aerospace than he did.
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64. Michael Heseltine was still responsible for transport, but for local government reform, covered in the Local Government Act 1972.
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66. Michael Heseltine was one of a group of 15 Conservative MPs to vote against the 1968 Commonwealth Immigration Bill on second reading.
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67. Michael Heseltine was MP for Henley from February 1974 until his retirement from the House of Commons in 2001.
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68. Michael Heseltine was one of 180 applicants for the safe Conservative seat of Henley, whose MP John Hay was stepping down.
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69. Michael Heseltine stressed his agreement with Liberal principles and fought extremely hard, achieving a small swing to the Conservatives, bucking the national trend.
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75. Michael Heseltine campaigned briefly as a volunteer in the October 1951 general election before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford where, in frustration at his inability to be elected to the committee of the Oxford University Conservative Association, he founded the breakaway Blue Ribbon Club.
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78. Michael Heseltine served as a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001, and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including serving as Deputy Prime Minister under the latter.
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79. Michael Heseltine quit the government in consequence, storming out in the middle of a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street in protest against the prime minister's style.
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80. Michael Heseltine sees Brexit as a historic loss of power for Britain and feels Britain's interests are in Europe.
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81. Michael Heseltine supported George Osborne's Budget measures in 2013 and Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms, but showed concerns over the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
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83. In November 1999 Michael Heseltine was invited by Hague to be the Conservative candidate for the new position of Mayor of London, but he declined.
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85. Michael Heseltine became active in promoting the benefits for Britain of joining the Single European Currency, appearing on the same stage as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Robin Cook as part of an all-party campaign to promote Euro membership.
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87. Michael Heseltine was given a swipe card to enter 10 Downing Street whenever he liked and the right to attend any committee he wished.
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88. Michael Heseltine was active in leading British trade delegations to South Africa, South America, India and Russia, but despite his enthusiasm for European Unity was seen to display little interest in the nuts and bolts of trade negotiations with the continent.
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90. Michael Heseltine mocked Shadow Chancellor John Smith's "prawn cocktail offensive" to try to butter up City opinion.
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91. Michael Heseltine proposed plans for developing an East Thames corridor.
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94. Michael Heseltine wanted warmer relations with the Soviets and was sceptical about the US Strategic Defense Initiative, putting in a brief and grudging appearance at Caspar Weinberger's Ditchley Park Conference about the topic in 1985.
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96. Michael Heseltine made such a claim in a speech at Exeter in April 1983, and distributed to Tory candidates information about the background of leading members of CND.
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99. Michael Heseltine instituted Peter Walker's custom of morning "prayer" meetings, now common in Whitehall but an innovation at the time.
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