1: Michael Heseltine: From Thatcher to Sunak
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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What Would Willie Whitelaw Have Been Like as Prime Minister?
Willie Whitelaw would have been a good prime minister on the big, descending issue of the trade union in power. There was complete unity in the cabinet. And Willie would have done it in the same way that we all did it. We didn't win the first confrontation with the miners. But that merely hardened the view. It was a brilliant exercise. Peter Walker and Nigel Lawson, who just piled up the coal at the pits and the bar stations. Can I come into ask Alice from this? So, presumably your political memory of this is very, very different from Michael's. When you hear about the miracle of how brilliant they were in taking on the miners and how extraordinary Peter
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