You are bidding on one typed, signed letter fromMichael Heseltine (*1933), British Conservative Party politician, leader of the Tory Reform Group, former government minister and businessman.

Dated10. January 1991.

Language: English.

Addressed to a Mr. Zienow.

Small format stationery with a beautiful embossed coat of arms.

Format: 21 x 14.8cm.

Condition: Perforated on the sides, paper slightly browned and compressed in the upper area; biographical information on the author on the reverse. please noteen also the pictures!

Internal note: 2d/7

aboveMichael Heseltine (sourcee: wikipedia):

Michael Raymond Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (b. March 1933 in Swansea, Wales) is a British Conservative Party politician, leader of the Tory Reform Group, former government minister and businessman. In 1990 he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership, playing a key role in replacing her, although he did not succeed her.

Life: Born to a colonel, Michael Heseltine was educated at Shrewsbury School and studied history, philosophy and politics at Pembroke College (Oxford). During this time he became President of the renowned British debating club, the Oxford Union. From this time comes the anecdote that he wrote on the back of an envelope: 25 millionaire, 35 cabinet member, 45 party leader, 55 prime minister. A trained accountant, after his military service he became editor, from 1966 co-owner and publisher of Haymarket Publishing and earned millions by publishing magazines, including Management Today, and before he was 40 he was already a member of the cabinet.

In 1966 he became a member of the British House of Commons for the constituency of Tavistock in Devon, which he represented until 1974. When the Conservative Party won the general election in 1970, Prime Minister Edward Heath appointed him to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport until 1972, then as Secretary of State for Air and Shipping. During the opposition period from 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the shadow cabinet as shadow industry minister. During this period the Labor government pushed for the nationalization of the shipyards and airline industries. In the House of Commons debate, Heseltine was made famous by the following legendary episode: Accounts of exactly what happened vary, but the most colorful portrayed Heseltine grasping the House of Commons ceremonial mace and brandishing it at the Labor Party left, his long blond hair around him whirling as they celebrated their victory in the vote by singing the "Red Flag" anthem. Since then, Heseltine has been nicknamed "Tarzan".

He was appointed Minister for the Environment by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. During the explosion of violence in Britain's inner cities that followed the Brixton and Toxteth clashes in the early 1980s, Heseltine was dispatched as a troubleshooter to curb the violence. From the 6th January 1983 to 9. In January 1986 he served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet as Secretary of Defense. During this period he considered controlling arms spending and defending Britain's nuclear armament against criticism from the peace movement and the Labor opposition as his most important tasks. He advocated the NATO double-track decision and an SDI agreement with the United States. In connection with the crisis at the helicopter manufacturer Westland Aircraft, there was a cabinet debate that was bitter for him: Heseltine had advocated a European solution to save the only British helicopter manufacturer and had pursued its merger with the Italian manufacturer Agusta, while the Prime Minister and Industry Minister Leon Brittan advocated a merger between Westlands and the American manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. After losing the cabinet vote, Heseltine appeared in front of the assembled press and announced his resignation, in which he embarrassed Margaret Thatcher by accusing her of intransigence. Two weeks later, Brittan was forced to resign after it became apparent that he had leaked to the press a memo critical of Heseltine from an official.

The Westland Affair was seen as the beginning of the end of the Thatcher era. Heseltine withdrew to the back benches of the House of Commons and became increasingly critical of the Prime Minister. He challenged Margaret Thatcher as party leader in November 1990, who was completely unprepared. In addition to Heseltine, who dared to come out of cover too early, Douglas Hurd also ran and finally John Major, who ultimately won. Heseltine returned to Cabinet as Environment Secretary with special responsibility for replacing the poll tax so vigorously enforced by Margaret Thatcher. He later became Minister for Trade and Deputy Prime Minister. He was one of the main supporters of the construction of the Millennium Dome.

After Labor won the 1997 election, health problems prevented him from running for the Conservative Party leadership. But he actively supported, along with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Robin Cook, the bipartisan campaign for Britain to join the single European currency, the euro. At the height of the euro crisis in 2011, he reiterated this view.

In his constituency of Henley-on-Thames, which he represented from 1974, he did not stand in the general election in 2001 and left the constituency to his successor Boris Johnson, but remained involved in British politics. Elevated to a life peer as Baron Heseltine of Thenford in the County of Northamptonshire in the same year, he is a member of the House of Lords.

In December 2002, Heseltine sparked controversy when he demanded that the hapless and colorless party leader Iain Duncan Smith be replaced by dream team Kenneth Clarke as leader and Michael Portillo as his deputy. Without Duncan Smith being voted out, the party "didn't have a glimmer of a chance of winning the next election," he said. He suggested voting in the parliamentary group instead of the party congress that is actually responsible according to the statutes. In fact, Duncan Smith was succeeded in November 2003, albeit by Michael Howard, who lost the 2005 general election to Tony Blair.

In 2016 he described the Brexit decision as "the greatest constitutional crisis in modern times" and condemned Boris Johnson as a coward for not running for election as the Conservative lead candidate after winning the referendum; he compared him to a general who leads his soldiers into battle and leaves them alone with the first shot on the battlefield.[2][3] After 6 years as a government consultant, Prime Minister May sacked him in February 2017 after losing the House of Lords.

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933), is a British Conservative politician and businessman. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket. Heseltine served as a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001, and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including serving as Deputy Prime Minister under the latter.

Heseltine entered the Cabinet in 1979 as Secretary of State for the Environment, where he promoted the "Right to Buy" campaign that allowed two million families to purchase their council houses. He was considered an adept media performer and a charismatic minister, although he was frequently at odds with Thatcher on economic issues. He was one of the most visible "wets", whose "One Nation" views were epitomized by his support for the regeneration of Liverpool in the early 1980s when it was facing economic collapse; this later earned him the award of Freeman of the City of Liverpool in 2012. As Secretary of State for Defense from 1983 to 1986, he was instrumental in the political battle against the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1986 over the Westland Affair and returned to the back benches.

Following Sir Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in November 1990, Heseltine challenged Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party, polling well enough to deny her an outright victory on the first ballot. He then lost to John Major on the second ballot, but returned to the Cabinet when Major became Prime Minister.

As a key ally of Major, Heseltine rose to become President of the Board of Trade and, from 1995, Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State. He declined to seek the leadership of the party following Major's 1997 election defeat, but remained a vocal advocate for modernization in the party.