The Latest Breaking News from Ted Heath

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

Keir Starmer is set to be the first UK prime minister to hold a bilateral meeting in Cyprus since Ted Heath 53 years ago but he will arrive with questions over the future of the UK’s bases on the island and tensions over the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

In the history of fag-end governments, Sunak’s must be the worst

While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour

On reflection, David Owen was probably too “leading man handsome” to help the SDP break the mould of British politics. That’s right, I’ve been re-watching old BBC election night broadcasts again. This time, it’s back to the Seventies and Eighties for Ted Heath’s miscalculation, Jim Callaghan’s sunny (albeit misplaced) optimism…

Conservative thinking has barely evolved since the Misuse of Drugs Act was passed by Ted Heath’s government in 1971.

The intervention would be the biggest attempt to manage supermarket prices since Ted Heath set up price controls in 1973

The prime minister is stubbornly attached to an outdated ideology, but has no plan for adapting to volatile times, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Big band crooner of the 1950s who also turned his hand to film and theatre