Lord Heseltine
Developer and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
JackGUEST
One Nation conservatives, generally speaking, these days tend to be the most sensible.
JackGUEST
I mean, Michael Heseltine is another one.
JackGUEST
He, you know, he very, very eloquently speaking about what reform represents and what it doesn't.
JackGUEST
I don't know if you saw the 2022 general, 2022 conference, conservative conference.
Abigoliah SchamaunHOST
So
Tom SalinskyHOST
we have war-crazed cabinet minister Michael Heseltine.
Tom SalinskyHOST
We have smooth, domineering David Owen opposite earnest little David Steele.
Tom SalinskyHOST
The royal family they imagined as a suburban household and so on and so on and so on.
John WhelanGUEST
Um, he was a char- he was a chartered accountant.
John WhelanGUEST
Michael Heseltine, who famously swung the, uh, mace around his head, was also a chartered accountant.
John WhelanGUEST
So-
Paul MaherHOST
But sexy? Come on.
Paul MaherHOST
What was sexy about it?
John WhelanGUEST
Michael Heseltine was sexy.
John WhelanGUEST
What attracted me to it though, was in the '80s, if you remember, I was leaving university in 1987.
John WhelanGUEST
Um, and the plan was to follow in Simon Le Bon's- ... footsteps who actually dropped out of Birmingham University in the second year, 'cause Duran Duran went to the top 10 with Planet Earth.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
I love Justin's approach.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
Justin, the last time I heard anybody talk about capacity building was way back in the mid-1980s under Margaret Thatcher, largely under Michael Heseltine.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
So there were two aspects to that, one of which was city challenge funding.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
and Heseltine really kind of begat that process.
Alun EvansHOST
This was seen as a demotion.
Alun EvansHOST
And then you had a number of quite heavyweight deputy prime ministers, people like Michael Heseltine under John Major, John Prescott under Tony Blair, and of course, Nick Clegg in the coalition.
Alun EvansHOST
But it's almost at times been in the gift of prime ministers.
Alun EvansHOST
And for whatever reason, the current one has decided to call Louise Haig first secretary rather than deputy prime minister.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
Um, I love Justin's approach.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
Justin, um, the last time I heard anybody talk about capacity building was way back in the mid-1980s under Margaret Thatcher, um, largely under, um, under Michael Heseltine.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
So there were two aspects to that, one of, one of which was city challenge funding, uh, and Heseltine really kind of begat that process.
Jed MurfinUNKNOWN
And don't, don't forget that city challenge funding also involved critically the private sector, so any, any, any projects that, that, that were, uh, idealized ca- you know, um, so capacity building, good.
LevHOST
That's what getting the whip is.
LevHOST
In November 1990, Michael Heseltine initiated a leadership challenge to Margaret Thatcher.
LevHOST
Hamilton was told by the chief whip to stay neutral, but says he ignored this instruction.
LevHOST
I naturally ignored this advice and fed all my intelligence into her campaign.
29 MINS LATER
LevHOST
Good on you, Ken Clarke.
LevHOST
Downey reported that he found the evidence against Hamilton in the case in Al-Fayed compelling.
LevHOST
Hamilton received over £25,000 and had deliberately misled Michael Heseltine, then president of the Board of Trade in October 1994, when he said he had no financial relationship with Ian Greer.
LevHOST
So he lied to Michael Heseltine's face.
Rafael BehrHOST
asked them that as well.
Vince CableGUEST
Even the people who are way out, you know, like Michael Heseltine, long since passed the Tory membership test, I think, will die a Tory is the way they put it.
Vince CableGUEST
So that's very difficult.
Vince CableGUEST
So, I mean, it's possible that by hanging in there, they will gradually recover enough ground to restore themselves as the party of the right.
Graham DuxburyGUEST
You know, we've been supported by politicians of all stripes over that period.
Graham DuxburyGUEST
So, you know, we were set up, you know, with strong connections to politicians and policymakers in the early 80s under a conservative administration championed by Michael Heseltine very early on.
Graham DuxburyGUEST
And then, you know, as that shifted into new labor territory, you know, we became involved in and integral to strategies like neighborhood renewal and various new deals and so on and so forth.
Graham DuxburyGUEST
So, you know, we had a home in that kind of stuff.
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