- Born
- Birth nameMichael Ray Dibdin Heseltine
- Nicknames
- Hezza
- Tarzan
- Height6′ 2½″ (1.89 m)
- Michael Heseltine was born on March 21, 1933 in Swansea, Wales, UK. He has been married to Anne Williams since 1962. They have three children.
- SpouseAnne Williams(1962 - present) (3 children)
- Made a life peer in 2001.
- Survived a heart attack while visiting Venice in 1993.
- Provided the inspiration for a lookalike puppet on Spitting Image (1984) TV show.
- Served as deputy prime minister under John Major. Also served as Secretary of State for Defence, Environment, Trade and Industry.
- A self-made millionaire, his company Haymarket Media Group is one of Britain's largest privately-owned magazine companies.
- The truth is the Labour Party have lost all the intellectual arguments of the '80s: council house sales, nuclear, privatization, tax levels, you name it, the Labour Party fought all the battles in my early political life and they lost the lot, so they now have to conform to a world global pattern of how governments can behave and there's no going back.
- What I would regard as One Nation Conservatism - that the poor and the elderly and the frail, they must be regarded as protected to the utmost of our ability - and that to me is one of the great historic strengths of the Conservative Party. Churchill (Winston Churchill) put it brilliantly: a net below which none may fall but above which all are free to rise.
- [on Ken Loach's socialist views during a Newsnight (1980) debate] A crypto-communist lot of claptrap.
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