Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden

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Heseltine, Michael (1 July 2016). "Having led his troops to the sound of guns, Boris Johnson now abandons his army within sight of the battlefield". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2017. a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wodhull, Michael". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.62. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Heseltine, who showed his ballot paper to the returning officers to prove that he had voted for Major, [231] commented that " John Major deserves a great deal better than that from his colleagues". Major was re-elected leader. [232] Deputy Prime Minister: 1995-1997 [ edit ] John Campbell (30 April 2011). Margaret Thatcher Volume Two: The Iron Lady. Random House. p.489. ISBN 978-1-4464-2008-9. They make a wonderful double act, Michael and Anne. He met her in 1961 at a 'rather grotty' party in Notting Hill Gate thrown by her boyfriend. 'Actually, your girlfriend was there too,' she adds. He is curmudgeonly, a low-snarling presence; she is light and bright, gossiping about how, married with a small baby, they lived next door to a brothel in Chepstow Villas. 'So noisy,' she remembers. 'Slamming doors all night.'

In the interim Shadow Cabinet of John Major he served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. [243] Retirement [ edit ] Lord Heseltine, June 2010. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. Luton Airport car park could have been saved by sprinklers after damning report published 13 years ago found they DO help extinguish fires - as experts call for sprinklers to be installed in all multi-storeys Michael says he never had the least interest in what people called him. He was nonetheless always on his guard with the press. So much so that there was one story he didn't want to get out. 'I treasured it throughout my political career. At prep school, I started a birdwatching club called the Tit Club. Every member was named after a member of the tit family: the Marsh Tit, the Blue Tit. I was the Great Tit. I just know if that had got out when I was in active politics, I would never have recovered.' Later, after lunch and a glass of wine, Lord Heseltine, his lisp now more pronounced, reverses his golf buggy into a hedge and nearly squashes his dachshund, Caspar. Has he planned his own funeral, I ask. 'No need,' he says mischievously. 'I don't believe in that. I'm immortal.'

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One of the reasons which Thatcher gave to close confidants for not retiring on her tenth anniversary as Prime Minister (May 1989) was worry that Heseltine would defeat Geoffrey Howe in any subsequent leadership election. Opinion polls showed that Heseltine would boost Conservative support by 13 percentage points – enough to overtake Labour. Sir Anthony Meyer wanted to see Heseltine as leader and only went ahead with his December 1989 leadership challenge to Thatcher on being assured by Keith Hampson that it would not damage Heseltine's chances; in the event Heseltine apparently walked up and down the corridor outside the voting booth making clear that he was abstaining. [196] While Thatcher won the contest, winning the votes of 85% of Conservative MPs, the next day's Glasgow Herald reported that Heseltine's supporters predicted that unless she changed "her style of leadership", she would "be on her way out next year". [197] Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster. "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 13 November 1990". Publications.parliament.uk . Retrieved 29 April 2010. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Collecting plants and trees is the most wonderful therapy and form of escape,’ explains Michael. ‘You go into a different world and it took me away from my red boxes. We are both born magpies and the process of collecting has been an essential characteristic of what we have done at Thenford’ m

He fervently believes the state and business need to come together so that the UK can get ahead on green technology and develop the industries of the future – including hydrogen and battery plants. The Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe, spoke highly of Heseltine's contribution to NATO and WEU conferences. Heseltine was as angry as Thatcher at the US invasion of Grenada, a Commonwealth country. He wanted warmer relations with the Soviets and was sceptical about the US Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"), putting in a brief and grudging appearance at Caspar Weinberger's Ditchley Park Conference about the topic in 1985. [160]

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