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...This time the Lib Dems had a tightly defined “seats strategy”, he said, which included targeting south-east England constituencies such as Hunt’s in Godalming and Ash, Gove’s in Surrey Heath and Keegan’s...
...(Theresa May and Liz Truss voted Remain. Boris Johnson was a late and perhaps opportunistic convert.) Sir Keir Starmer would hound him from here to Santa Monica....
...In 1970, Edward Heath merged Mintech with the Board of Trade to form the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)....
...Stephen BushIn Heath’s cabinet. George ParkerAs, yes, back in the early 1970s, so it’s a once in a two-generation event, in so many respects....
...The Surrey Heath MP stood for the leadership in 2016 after withdrawing his initial support for Boris Johnson, only to come third behind Theresa May....
...When Theresa May emerged from a Conservative party leadership challenge in December 2018, the then UK prime minister declared she was on a “renewed mission”....
...By 2018, when Theresa May led celebrations of its 70th, the soft-focus approach had been uncritically adopted by the Conservatives, too....
...More recently, in 2017, I was sacked as an adviser to the Theresa May government because I wanted parliament to have their say on the Brexit legislation....
...Britain’s past five prime ministers — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May — have been tarred with failure....
...Ted Heath did not exit parliament until almost three decades after the electorate rejected him in 1974....
...Where was “Global Britain” on the streets of Kabul, Johnson’s predecessor Theresa May asked scornfully, as the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital? Suez broke Eden....
...David Cameron used his services for collecting gossip, Theresa May as her chief whip and defence secretary, and Rishi Sunak for helping him corral MPs....
...Theresa May, the former UK prime minister, launched an extraordinary attack on Boris Johnson on Tuesday, accusing her successor of moral failure and diminishing Britain’s standing in global affairs....
...Six months ago, Theresa May was Britain’s disliked and distrusted prime minister....
...The government of Theresa May, Mr Johnson’s predecessor, made an empty promise in vowing to come up with an independent British alternative to Galileo....
...But there is precedent for breaking with that convention, as Edward Heath did as a backbencher and constant irritant for Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. And these are not normal times....
...Boris Johnson has officially entered the Conservative leadership contest, launching his campaign to succeed Theresa May when she resigns as party leader on Friday....
...Mr Johnson is ahead by every count in the race to replace Theresa May as Tory leader and UK prime minister, which starts in earnest with the first ballot of MPs on Thursday....
...David Rimmer Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, UK...
...Prime Minister Theresa May is in favour of the project; as is Tory party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt. Only Boris Johnson, his rival, is unsure, egged on by his party’s retrograde fringe....
...He has in essence ended up with Theresa May’s deal with some substantive changes on Northern Ireland we may all live to regret. The prime minister says he has ditched the backstop....
...One possibility would be to try to ratify Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement. That would allow the UK and the EU to move on to negotiating a new relationship....
...A less ambitious approach would be the one adopted by Edward Heath when he worked with 70 Labour MPs to take Britain into the European Economic Community....
...Britain joined the then European Economic Community more than 40 years ago only after a Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, secured the backing of dozens of rebel Labour MPs....
...The film shown to activists before the coronation airbrushed out of the party’s history Anthony Eden, who took Britain to war in Suez, and Edward Heath, who took the UK into the EU....
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