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1916–2005 England
Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) 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. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?"
Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.
Everyone who is already here must be treated as equal before the law.
A tragedy for the party. He's got no ideas, no experience and no hope.
This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.
We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.
Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.
He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.
They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.
There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.
This is the new imperialism, and I am against the new imperialism. It is not our job to go throwing our forces around the world and saying 'This is an evil man and so on'.
It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.
I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
Please don't applaud. It may irritate your neighbour.
I was interested in being present for its first, and I trust only, performance.
To return to the question of strategy... The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
It would not be in the interests of the Community that its enlargement should take place except with the full-hearted consent of the parliaments and its peoples of the new member countries.
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