The Latest Breaking News from Edward Heath

‘Lightweight’ Betjeman was initially overlooked for poet laureate

Newly released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2023

No 10 dismissed ‘songster of tennis lawns’ Sir John Betjeman as poet laureate

Newly-released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over prestigious literary appointment

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023

No 10 turned down poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves for laureate job

Newly released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2023

Barclay: Plans for price caps on food staples have ‘no element of compulsion’

Downing Street is understood to be drawing up proposals that would seek to get retailers charging the lowest possible amount for some basic products.

The Independent UK · May 28, 2023

Nigel Lawson obituary

One of the most influential postwar Conservative chancellors seen as the main architect of Thatcher’s radical economic reforms

The Guardian - UK · Apr 4, 2023

Mark Brown: Half a century of the play that changed Scotland

Iconic play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil is celebrating 50 years. Mark Brown looks back at a Scottish classic

The National (Scotland) · Mar 20, 2023

If it’s growth the chancellor wants, here’s one suggestion: rejoin the EU

Jeremy Hunt says the economy is his priority; but it and he are still really in thrall to the ideological blight of Brexit

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2023

Philip Ziegler obituary

Diplomat and historian who wrote magisterial biographies of Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten and Edward Heath

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023

Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

The Conversation · Mar 15, 2023

Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – it's also a sign she thinks he's heading for government

The last few years of drama at Westminster have set the bar pretty high for shock and surprise, but the sudden departure from government of Sue Gray, second permanent secretary to the Cabinet Office, and her proposed appointment as chief of staff to the leader of the Labour Party really…

The Conversation · Mar 9, 2023