Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 (1916–2005)
The Conservative Prime Minister who took Britain into Europe in 1973, then lost two elections in a single year and spent three decades on the backbenches nursing a very public grudge against Margaret Thatcher.
Born in 1916 to a chambermaid and a carpenter in Broadstairs, Heath rose through student politics at Oxford and served as an artillery officer in World War II before entering Parliament in 1950. He climbed quickly — Chief Whip under Eden, Cabinet minister under Macmillan — and in 1965 became the first Conservative leader chosen by ballot, a working-class meritocrat in a party of grandees. He lost badly in 1966 but pulled off an unexpected win in 1970. As Prime Minister he decimalised the coinage, overhauled local government, and achieved what he considered his finest work: British entry into t…
Sourced, dated quotes from Edward Heath
This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.
We may be a small island. We're not a small people... For the last six years the Government of this country...have let us be treated as second rate.
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about.
Everyone who is already here must be treated as equal before the law.
My position has remained the same. I have had more to do, at first hand, with European policy than any other person in politics today.
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