and patriotism.' principle editorial of Heseltine's walk-out from the cabinet. Ken Gill of TASS has given public backing to the EEC bid for defence spokesperson Heseltine himself remarked in the House of Commons following his speech last Wednesday: 'I have never been a sluggard when it comes to dealing with the Labour Party.' Does the now-departed minister of defence deserve even one jot credibility ROSS answers with a decisive no!
MICHAEL Heseltine is an unlikely hero *° Tabour section. movement. For a start, he Was the member of Cabilicl He owns Thenford House, officially describcuas grammed iron gates.' Set in 400 acres near Banbury bhenford House possesses Oxfordshire, a lake, blue tinted swimming pool, stables, a private equestrian course, ana a restorea mosaic Roman floor in the grounds. worth around f2 million.
Hece me aso owos d formatiarby Chacombid £350,000. His company, Haymarket Publishing, paid £500,000 for another arm a mile from ThenTOTO The Thenford- House mansion howeyer is only UlIC of Heseltine's three homes. The others are a four-storey Georgian house in Belgravia worth around a250,000 house al Exford, £800,000 in the middle of the Exmoor National Park 1 ne base Heseltine fortune is the 'A MAN WHO has resigned on a matter both of hat the Mirror characterised Westland put together by Heseltine. So has Labour Denzil Davies. But of support or from the labour movement? JOHN accurately summed up his record on 10 January: 'his public confrontations accompanied by characteristic garments like combat jackets zreen wellies - nave ocen irected traditional targets like Bruce Kent, the Greenham ComL101 wollich, the Molesworth demonSulaluls 'It is fair to say that few people in the Tory parly — not even those on the loony right - are quicker on the draw when it comes to denouncing CND supporters UnOCICOVCI Commies or agents of the Kremlin.
Rob Shepherd, lobby correspondent for Channel 4, also put it accurately the Statesman:
went down well with the wets. who tend to be hardline as any diehard on defence.
The Times. reporting on Heseltine's resignation, noted: 'many of the service chiefs and senior civil servants the departure of a man they came to regard as a defender their interests and a firm believer in te curopedi cooperation they favour. ME TARZANSHE PAIN A FUTURE THAT WILL WORK DAVID OWEN