Michael Heseltine

From Acorns to Oaks (eBook, ePUB)

An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Michael Heseltine wrote his acclaimed autobiography, Life in the Jungle, he assumed his political career was over. He returned to Haymarket, his publishing business, and intended to explore more of the world and pursue his passions outside politics. His assumption was wrong. David Cameron called him, tentatively at first but gradually with increased responsibility, back to the corridors of power. This second memoir is a potpourri of reminiscences about Heseltine's life and previously unexplored aspects of his stellar political career. But the main reason for Heseltine taking up his pen again has been to look back on the fundamental changes he was able to mastermind while in government and to set out the policies that are urgently needed to unite the country by driving growth, increasing prosperity and restoring hope. He combines this with new revelations about the seismic Westland scandal, the establishment cover-up that caused him to resign from Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, and a damning assessment of what he considers the grievous act of self-harm inflicted on Britain by Brexit. This extraordinary new memoir offers an urgent agenda to rebuild Britain from one of our last great statesmen, who has been at the forefront of business and politics for the past sixty years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785909863
• Artikelnr.: 72604668

Autorenporträt

Lord Heseltine was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001. He was a Cabinet minister in various departments from 1979 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1997. He was Deputy Prime Minister between 1995 and 1997. He is founder of the Haymarket Group, a privately owned media company. In 2015, Lord Heseltine was appointed by the government as an adviser to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Within this remit, he was chair of the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission and co-chair of the Estate Regeneration Advisory Panel. His work for the government came to an end in 2017. In 2018, he published his reply to the government's industrial strategy green paper, titled 'Industrial Strategy', and later published a report on devolution, 'Empowering English Cities'. He was president of the European Movement from June 2019 to November 2024. Lord Heseltine's previous books include The Challenge of Europe, his political autobiography Life in the Jungle and Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden (co-written with Lady Heseltine). Lord Heseltine is an enthusiastic gardener and a vice-president of the Royal Horticultural Society.