Michael Heseltine Quotes

You can’t wield a handbag from an empty chair.

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than Mrs Thatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victory and preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.