Edward Heath

Family and studies

Wire of a carpenter and a servant, Edward Heath was born the July 9th 1916 in Broadstairs in the Kent.

Student with Oxford, it had been noticed by Winston Churchill for his opposite sights with the policy of appeasing with regard to Hitler. Churchill will become its mentor.

Political career

Preserving appointed elected official of Bexley in 1950, Heath sat at the House of Commons until in 2001.

He is initially responsible for the discipline within the preserving parliamentary group (Chief whip). As a more former member, it had become the " father of Chambre" (Father off the House).

He is Minister for Labor in 1959 then Lord of the Seal deprived in the cabinet Harold Macmillan in 1960 in charge of the negotiations for the adhesion of the the United Kingdom to the EEC but runs up against the veto of De Gaulle in 1963.

In the government of Alec Douglas-Home (1963-1964), he is Commercial Minister (president off the Board off Trade) and Secretary of State to the Trade, Industry and redéployement regional.

In 1965, it succeeds Douglas-Home with the head of the conservative party and carries out the victorious electoral campaign of 1970 which brings it to 10 Downing Street.

Prime Minister (1970-1974)

This wire of carpenter who exploded with the conservative party will control the United Kingdom only for only one mandate, marked by the social dispute and the economic difficulties.

He manages to insert the United Kingdom in the European Economic community after having convinced a public opinion and a conservative party rather tepid, but less skeptics that today. " It is more the beautiful day of my vie" exclaim it when it signs the Treaty of accession of its country at the European Community with the Palate of Egmont to Brussels the January 24th 1972. By the means of the Referendum, the president Georges Pompidou had made raise the French veto put by De Gaulle at the entry of the United Kingdom. The coming into effect of the treaty take place the ler January 1973 (Europe of the Last nines with the United Kingdom, the Ireland and the Denmark).

Criticized in its party, in particular by the wing thatchérienne, Edward Heath, which wanted to be liberal on the economic plan but progressist on the social plan, had crystallized on him the popular discontent.

He is also the Prime Minister who sent the British army in Northern Ireland but he did not succeed in solving this conflict.

In 1974, a strike of minors pushes Edward Heath to convene anticipated legislative elections. It loses the capacity with the profit of the member of the Labor Party Harold Wilson who finds the capacity.

A long political end of a career (1975-2001)

The following year, in 1975, it is isolated direction of its party by Margaret Thatcher which denounces the “underhand socialism” of its predecessor. Heath declared qu'" thereafter; it had never made a decision judicieuse".

Heath continued occasionally to express its very pro-European positions in a country and a party gained by the euroscepticism.

It puts an end to its political career in 2001.

Edward Heath died in old 89 years the July 17th 2005 with Salisbury.

Others

Insane of veil, equipped with a very great direction of humor, he was also an accomplished musician. He was even tried a moment by a career of leader.

There had remained unmarried.

One owes him of the Memories: " The Autobiography off Edward Heath: The Race off My Life" , Hodder & Stoughton, 1988, ISBN 0.340 70852 2,767 pages.

Quotation

“The capacity with the desk is much more real than that which one has in Downing Street.” - Heath, Prime Minister

External bonds

Biography on the site of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Simple: Edward Heath

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