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Hace 1 día · Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.
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Hace 4 días · On 26 March 2001, former prime minister Sir Edward Heath was interviewed by ITN's Nicholas Owen. Heath was marking 51 years as a Member of Parliament, and chose the occasion to reflect on his...
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Hace 5 días · Margaret Thatcher was an outsider when she challenged Edward Heath for leadership of the Conservative Party.
Hace 4 días · Here he encountered many of those who would be most influential in later life, including Madron Seligman, Nicholas Henderson, Mark Bonham Carter, Ronald McIntosh and Edward Heath. His closest Oxford friend was Tony Crosland, who appeared one afternoon in his doorway and chatted for two hours.
Hace 1 día · Coal miners were highly organised and had defeated Prime Minister Heath. Thatcher expected a major confrontation, planned ahead for one, and avoided trouble before she was ready. In the end the miners' strike of 1984–85 proved a decisive victory for her—one that permanently discouraged trade unionists.
Hace 2 días · The 1980s were also the decade that saw the decline – or the breaking of, depending on your viewpoint – of trade unionism. Ted Heath had fought and lost an election on the question of ‘who governs?’ in the 1970s; Thatcher was determined history would not repeat itself.
Hace 4 días · Prime Minister Edward Heath called a ‘who governs?’ election in the midst of the miners’ strike, electricity outages and the three-day week, seeking a mandate for his policies.
