1: Michael Heseltine: From Thatcher to Sunak
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Is There a Difference Between a Whip and a Vote?
Boris Johnson effectively threw out Ken Clark, Nicholas Somes and Philip Hammond. Can you imagine a previous Prime Minister throwing out such senior figures from the party for voting against them? Well, I haven't done a search to find out what penalties Margaret applied in given the circumstances. But when you talk to Margaret and you argued with her, you could persuade her. One of Margaret's greatest achievements, for then his shadow of doubt, is the single European market. People, the ignorance in this country is to what goes on in Europe. British civil servants queue up to fly to Brussels to be part of the machine. And Margaret was not prepared quite rightly to let the French and Germans fix the
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