Michael Heseltine

Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs

The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed

Larry Elliott

07, Feb, 2023 @4:51 PM

John Smith and Mo Mowlam led the original prawn cocktail offensive | Brief letters

Brief letters: Labour and the City | Morrissey’s motorway stop | Vince Cable’s legacy | Silent school dinners | The Year of the Three Kings

Letters

27, Oct, 2022 @5:31 PM

Margaret Thatcher was no team player | Letter

Letter: Former Conservative minister Norman Fowler disagrees with one current cabinet member’s description of her administration as ‘true cabinet government’

Letters

06, Oct, 2022 @5:08 PM

Truss picked ‘cronies off backbenches’ for cabinet, says Heseltine

Former Tory ‘big beast’ says PM needs to ‘appoint ministers who know what the heck they’re doing’

Peter Walker Political correspondent

03, Oct, 2022 @2:37 PM

‘Curse of Heseltine’: how the wheels came off Rishi Sunak’s No 10 campaign

Ex-chancellor was leading frontrunner in the race to succeed Boris Johnson but his dreams soon unravelled

Aubrey Allegretti

02, Sep, 2022 @5:00 AM

Why the panic among Boris Johnson’s allies? Because they know Brexit is unravelling | Michael Heseltine

There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press, says the former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine

Michael Heseltine

16, Feb, 2022 @11:00 AM

New words for those stuck in a viral spiral | Brief letters

Brief letters: Handwashing | Old OS maps | Tory sausages | Sci-fi prequel | Covid neologisms

Letters

16, Jul, 2021 @4:18 PM

Attendance at English schools 'mandatory' from September, says Williamson – as it happened

Labour leader criticises government lack of leadership on schools; Scotland’s distancing rule to be relaxed for some sectors; lockdown-easing paused in some Scottish towns

Andrew Sparrow (now) and Amelia Hill (earlier)

02, Jul, 2020 @5:08 PM

Brexit: Heseltine says celebrations rub remainers' noses in it

Commemorative coin, countdown and Downing Street light display to mark departure on Friday

Toby Helm

26, Jan, 2020 @10:45 AM

Politics makes Liberal allsorts of us all | Letter

Letter: Michael Heseltine’s support of the Lib Dems does not represent his return to liberalism, writes Rev Paul Hunt – but he is happy to have him on board nonetheless

Letters

06, Dec, 2019 @5:38 PM