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    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Michael Heseltine: ‘The adults are back in charge’

      The Tory grandee on turning 90, ‘levelling up’ Liverpool — and whether Britain will rejoin the EU

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Brexit
      The consequences of Boris Johnson and Brexit are coming home to roost

      In a week of economic and political chaos, the British people are realising they have been deceived

    • Friday, 12 November, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      The ‘levelling up’ of England’s regions is long overdue

      Ministers must commit time and investment if their promise of reducing inequality is to be more than a slogan

    • Thursday, 5 March, 2020
      News in-depthFlybe Group
      Flybe failure tests UK policy on regional ‘levelling up’

      Airline’s perilous decade comes to an end after years of jeopardy

    • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
      UK business & economy
      Sajid Javid to issue ‘Brexit red tape challenge’ to public

      Chancellor will ask for suggestions on where UK should diverge from EU rule book

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
      UK politics & policy
      If Johnson wants to ‘level up’, this is what he must do

      The power that enabled regional economies to make Britain what it became needs to be restored

    • Monday, 25 November, 2019
      UK general election
      Heseltine urges UK voters to back Liberal Democrats

      Former Tory deputy PM rounds on Boris Johnson’s ‘great delusion’ on Brexit

    • Sunday, 11 August, 2019
      Brexit
      MPs have few options to stop no-deal Brexit, says think-tank

      Ways of changing course including no-confidence vote or election unlikely to succeed

    • Monday, 1 July, 2019
      English devolution
      Heseltine urges greater powers for England’s metro mayors

      Tory grandee’s report says devolution push away from London has stalled

    • Monday, 20 May, 2019
      Lord Heseltine has Conservative party whip suspended over Brexit
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Michael Heseltine: how green spaces transform inner cities

      The former deputy PM on how improving the environment was at the core of his political life

    • Monday, 27 November, 2017
      Brexit
      Theresa May seeks to break Brexit clouds with industrial strategy
    • Monday, 20 November, 2017
      UK industrial strategy
      Whitehall must create a regional industrial strategy

      More power must be ceded to local control, particularly in education and employment

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
      Brexit
      Heseltine sacked as adviser after rebelling over Brexit vote

      Tory grandee backed demand for parliament to be given a vote on final deal with EU

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
      Brexit
      Europhile Tories plot rebellion after Heseltine’s sacking

      Peer’s departure raises questions about Commons votes on Brexit bill

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
      News in-depthBrexit
      Michael Heseltine sacking sharpens atmosphere at Westminster

      Conservative peer was working unpaid to advance government agenda

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
      Brexit
      Heseltine on Brexit sacking: “too much” not to give parliament a final say
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2017
      Brexit
      Theresa May’s Brexit path stalked by Big Beasts of the past

      Most vocal opposition to government policy coming from pro-European old guard

    • Monday, 27 February, 2017
      Britain after BrexitJames Blitz
      Michael Heseltine to the Brexit barricades

      Defiance is an important signal that the Lords will give the prime minister trouble

    • Monday, 27 February, 2017
      Brexit
      Ministers warn House of Lords against amending Brexit bill

      Some peers intend to attach amendments but have been rebuked by the Tory leadership

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2016
      UK universities
      The Oxford Union: politics or business

      What did presidents of the world-famous debating chamber do next?

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2016
      Robin Lane Fox
      How Tarzan tamed a jungle: Michael Heseltine’s garden triumph

      The former UK deputy prime minister and his wife Anne have spent four decades creating their garden

    • Monday, 6 June, 2016
      UK business & economy
      Heseltine lays out plans to revive Teesside

      Ex-deputy PM underlines challenge of reinvigorating industrial area now ‘a scene of desolation’

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2016
      Instant InsightSebastian Payne
      Why the Boris Johnson v Michael Heseltine EU fight matters

      Bile flows among the Tories but a party split looms, writes Sebastian Payne

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
      UK business & economy
      Heseltine looks to Canary Wharf for estuary inspiration

      Tory veteran to lead moves to regenerate large swathes of south Essex and north Kent

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