Edward Heath
Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE, often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth9 July 1916
believe shadow cabinets
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.
thinking government would-be
I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
leadership
Leadership is all about right and wrong.
economic economics protectionism
Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
running frustrated desire
I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel
america three world
I said it three times actually.
eight government years
We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
children sick unions
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.
retirement vat firsts
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement
europe storm done
Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.
wise people house
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.
faces capitalism
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
attitude moral apartheid
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
active role
We feel that you should take an active role in world affairs,