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417. Britain in 1974: State of Emergency (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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Personal integrity over adherence to rules

A story illustrates Ted Heath's personal integrity, being a boy who saw breaking school rules as disloyalty. Despite attending Oxford, where he was friends with a future Labour politician, he maintained strict moral standards, as shown by his shocked response to a friend's plan to pretend to be married for a weekend. This anecdote highlights Heath's principled nature and his aversion to behavior he deemed immoral.

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