1: Michael Heseltine: From Thatcher to Sunak
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
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Is There Something Structural About the Conservative Party?
I was perceived to be the person who had brought her down. I also think I helped save the party because I got rid of the poll taxes part of the process. We'd have got decimated if we'd fought with the poll tax in place. But that did cause a great division. And I was the cause, or seemed to be the cause. It's sort of trying to get to the bottom of this question of how the Conservative Party responded to you. You were almost prime minister. You almost became leader, but it didn't work. Is there something structural about the Conservative Party which makes it difficult for somebody like you and later Ken Clark to become leader? No, I don
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