Lord Heseltine on Mrs Thatcher: I never liked her...but that shouldn't matter in politics 

He’s right you don’t have to like everybody you work with, it’s about working together for the greater good and a common goal.

The best thing that happened to our city, when Michael became the Minister for Merseyside, thank you Michael. From Liverpool.

Difference was people like Heseltine and ofcourse Maggie, were a far different league to the ineptitude and cluelessness of today's politicians. They were intelligent and classy people of the old school...ok the public school but they were more like the ticket to run a country.

I remember him "Tarzan" walking out Westland Helicopter Company. 9 January 1986. Those were the days. You could walk out and be noticed.

I'd have been terribly disappointed in Lady Thatcher had Heseltine liked her.

Wow, the Brexiteers came out in full force in this one.

Tarzan was great. He is a Conservative with principles. I struggle to think of one in the current gov.

Thatcher just seems so ideologically driven, her legacy just doesnt look good today. Its doesnt look like practicality always guided her decisions, but the Thatcher fans might make you believe otherwise over here.

What a dreadful admission, "I was at the forefront of the sale of council houses". That was the beginning of unaffordable housing for the less well off.

“You get together as a vehicle for power”…not to do good or change society but a vehicle for power. A huge Freudian slip there…

A model to follow or to get inspired by

Lord Heseltine was 90 years old when he was doing this interview; more health and long life to Lord Heseltine.

Better to keep quiet a vow of silence

We know why you never like her Hestletine. she probably hated you too over Europe mainly

But he made a colossal tactical error by resigning as he could well have become leader if he'd stayed. Just like Arthur Scargill had done, he played into her hands.

SHE Never like him Either, Heseltine was always in it for what he could get out of It. Nothing to do what was Goid for the Nation. Please

Mrs thatcher was far above his pompous attitude

Heseltine did more to divide the party than anyone else in recent times

Heseltine was always a gun for hire who agreed with whatever lobby could pay him the most. In doing so he advocated for the EU parent subsidiary directive which allows large corporates to not pay tax here, and the EU postal service directive which ordered the sale of the post office -All behind the guise of European cooperation - which the EU definately doesn't represent. Everything wrong with politics - and you would only know of this super tory demonstrationless heaven by reading the entire EU manifesto.

Revisionism. He saw an opportunity to tie the Westland affair (..he cared not about it when Defence Minister) to the European issue as a pretext for positioning for the leadership. Pure ambition.

She was twice the man you were...

I met Heseltine and his wife on a few occasions and they were two of the most rude obnoxious snobby people I have ever met. I remember being at a dinner to which they were invited and they treated the waiting staff like dirt (and by the way, he was not brought up with that fake upper-class accent, it was affected with the help of countless election lessons). By comparison, Thatcher, whom I also met, was far far more humble.

I worked with Mrs Thatcher. I worked with her after I had been familiar with most leading politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. I had interviewed Enoch Powell, for example, when I was 22 years old. I make mention of this to show that I was not easily 'star-struck.' Margaret Thatcher was like none of the others. She was truly sui generis. Frankly, there was something about her which physically repelled me. I found it hard to be in the same room as her. Now this had absolutely nothing to do with her political views (with whom I wholeheartedly agreed). Rather it was the fact that she can only be described as a 'force of nature.' A somewhat disturbing force of nature, at least to me at the time. Luckily, she had an antidote always standing very nearby, namely, Denis. Oh he was a sterling chap and a great judge of character. I think one has to understand that politicians such as Thatcher and Heseltine were cut from a totally different cloth for those of today. This has little or nothing to do with education. Rather its foundations lie in the fact that they were motivated by principle. Principles largely created as a bi-product of Second World War. A consequence of this was that they cared - unlike today - far more about ideas and far less about personality. It was ideas that made the difference. Illustration: The year was 1983. We now know that the Conservative Party won the General Election easily, but in the electoral contest that was not the way it looked at the time. Michael Foot was then the Leader of the Opposition. Saatchi and Saatchi approached MT with the front cover of the Sun in which Foot was being ridiculed for wearing a Donkey Jacket. They thought that she would find it amusing. She was absolutely disgusted. In her world you 'played the ball and not the man.'

Many people never liked him or his behaviour. In a democracy it’s the ballot box which decides and however much you dislike the outcome you have to wait for another opportunity not attempt to delay, frustrate, nullify, cancel, or overturn the result which he and his like have done post June 2015.

Good job we left EU. That change is marvelous.

I also didn't liked Thatcher. Heseline was the best Tory leader not be elected. Unfortunately, there were so many Thatcher's bootlickers. MH had the balls to face up with Thatcher. MH not elected was the Tory's lost.

He's a tiny footnote in a Titan's legacy, it must be unbearable for him 😂

One of the great things in recent history is that this terrible narcissist was not Prime Minister

"I got rid of more QANGOS than even Keith Joseph". But still wanted to overturn the people's choice to leave the EU, an organisation full of wasteful expenditure.

We never liked him either

How wonderful to hear Lord Hestletine, fully artuculate at his great age. Compared to the younger Biden, whom I equally llke, the latter seems to have aged considerably in the last few weeks alas...

"They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman." - Edward Heath

She was stabbed in the back by him and Major, and she was a woman, but he'll never admit that?

Maggie was a dictator, at least in her party.

Heseltine never got over being kicked out. A bitter old man whose achievements in life greatly exceeded his intelligence and grace. His bitterness extends to demonising Brexit voters because he lost money in the U.K. exiting the EU.

He was envious of Thatcher because of her strength and integrity but what really hurt was the fact she was a woman.

Of course he he didn't like her. She muscled out his and his friends aristocratic comfortable control of the Tory looking after their own interests. Never mind the interests of ordinary people.

Sounds simple to reduce staffing by a recruitment freeze, but it actually is a very foolish move. You end up with a gap at the lower levels of entry as all the senior members move on or retire and there is nobody left to train them. A very foolish move indeed, I have seen the results myself.

Lady Thatcher had something to offer until that final debacle with the poll tax and she was a voice that offered something positive after the likes of Harold Wilson and his "£50 travel allowance" era. She brought back a sense of pride to this battered talked-down country. I don't recall any such legacy from Heseltine.

The incredible sulk!

To me, and for what it’s worth, he’s always sounded immensely arrogant and self-important.

Heseltine thatcher had balls heseltine had none

The decline of the UK stretches right back to the Thatcher era which was saved by North Sea Oil and Gas. Made worse by Brexit which enabled the EU to control all goods coming in and out of the UK.

He and his family, seemed to believe that he had a divine right to be PM, even though he actually achieved nothing.

People don’t like you either

Heseltine was a little man in Thatchers government, a little man with a huge ego.

silly old buffer

Tarzan is lord of jungle!

"I didn't like her but that shouldn't matter ... " Yeah, but that's exactly why he stabbed her in the back.

Heseltine didn't like Thatcher? He doesn't like the "current crop of Tory leaders" either. He doesn't like Tory Brexiteers. So who does he like? Well, he's in love with himself. And he's also keen on money, power, and the European Union. I reckon he fuses the last three things together in his own mind.

This man is truly nauseating! He was pro EU and Margaret was pro Britain!

Bloke jealous of a proper prime minister

Two great people

He literally stood against her for the Tory leadership in 1990

Maybe Mrs. Thatcher "never liked him" --- quite understandable of course.

Listening to this, Europe aside, he doesn’t seem that different in his views from the Tory far right.

There is misunderstanding...Thatcher was a catastrophe

I’m just going to quote Lady Thatcher: "Weak…feeble…" Heseltine was one of the insufferable obstacles that should’ve been removed from the beginning 👎🏻

He salad no jobs for l more jobs for live before they made me redundant j

Ah! I remember him. He was Minister of Aerospace when the UK was peddling that piece of white flying junk Concorde and the only way Heseltine could get people to buy it was by bribing them with free antique silver Georgian coffee pots! There was a big scandal about that and the satirical magazine 'Private Eye' had a field day!

Ghastly man who just won’t go away. Wheeled out to give his view on everything. Still irrelevant. It was funny at the time when both he & his wife & children all set to move in to no 10 and it didn’t go his way. 😅

He didnt like women

I didnt like Thatcher either, I didnt like Heseltine either, in fact i dont like any tories, so i dont singke out any one person

I don't think Heseltine was the life and soul of any party ...was he ? Too busy counting his money and collecting the monthly rent from his vast land ownership ! Oh ,and being an unelected Lord with massive expenses ,would take up a lot of one's valuable time too ,to be a likeable sort ....

Heseltine the Remoaner who wanted to remain so he could claim his £90.000 a year subsidies from the E/U.😂😂😂