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  • Friday, 12 November, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    The ‘levelling up’ of England’s regions is long overdue

    Ministers must commit time and investment if their promise of reducing inequality is to be more than a slogan

  • Thursday, 5 March, 2020
    News in-depthFlybe Group
    Flybe failure tests UK policy on regional ‘levelling up’

    Airline’s perilous decade comes to an end after years of jeopardy

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    UK business & economy
    Sajid Javid to issue ‘Brexit red tape challenge’ to public

    Chancellor will ask for suggestions on where UK should diverge from EU rule book

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    If Johnson wants to ‘level up’, this is what he must do

    The power that enabled regional economies to make Britain what it became needs to be restored

  • Monday, 25 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Heseltine urges UK voters to back Liberal Democrats

    Former Tory deputy PM rounds on Boris Johnson’s ‘great delusion’ on Brexit

  • Sunday, 11 August, 2019
    Brexit
    MPs have few options to stop no-deal Brexit, says think-tank

    Ways of changing course including no-confidence vote or election unlikely to succeed

  • Monday, 1 July, 2019
    English devolution
    Heseltine urges greater powers for England’s metro mayors

    Tory grandee’s report says devolution push away from London has stalled

  • Monday, 20 May, 2019
    Lord Heseltine has Conservative party whip suspended over Brexit
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Michael Heseltine: how green spaces transform inner cities

    The former deputy PM on how improving the environment was at the core of his political life

  • Monday, 27 November, 2017
    Brexit
    Theresa May seeks to break Brexit clouds with industrial strategy
  • Monday, 20 November, 2017
    UK industrial strategy
    Whitehall must create a regional industrial strategy

    More power must be ceded to local control, particularly in education and employment

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Brexit
    Heseltine sacked as adviser after rebelling over Brexit vote

    Tory grandee backed demand for parliament to be given a vote on final deal with EU

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Brexit
    Europhile Tories plot rebellion after Heseltine’s sacking

    Peer’s departure raises questions about Commons votes on Brexit bill

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    News in-depthBrexit
    Michael Heseltine sacking sharpens atmosphere at Westminster

    Conservative peer was working unpaid to advance government agenda

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
    Brexit
    Heseltine on Brexit sacking: “too much” not to give parliament a final say
  • Thursday, 2 March, 2017
    Brexit
    Theresa May’s Brexit path stalked by Big Beasts of the past

    Most vocal opposition to government policy coming from pro-European old guard

  • Monday, 27 February, 2017
    Britain after BrexitJames Blitz
    Michael Heseltine to the Brexit barricades

    Defiance is an important signal that the Lords will give the prime minister trouble

  • Monday, 27 February, 2017
    Brexit
    Ministers warn House of Lords against amending Brexit bill

    Some peers intend to attach amendments but have been rebuked by the Tory leadership

  • Tuesday, 29 November, 2016
    UK universities
    The Oxford Union: politics or business

    What did presidents of the world-famous debating chamber do next?

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2016
    Robin Lane Fox
    How Tarzan tamed a jungle: Michael Heseltine’s garden triumph

    The former UK deputy prime minister and his wife Anne have spent four decades creating their garden

  • Monday, 6 June, 2016
    UK business & economy
    Heseltine lays out plans to revive Teesside

    Ex-deputy PM underlines challenge of reinvigorating industrial area now ‘a scene of desolation’

  • Thursday, 19 May, 2016
    Instant InsightSebastian Payne
    Why the Boris Johnson v Michael Heseltine EU fight matters

    Bile flows among the Tories but a party split looms, writes Sebastian Payne

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
    UK business & economy
    Heseltine looks to Canary Wharf for estuary inspiration

    Tory veteran to lead moves to regenerate large swathes of south Essex and north Kent

  • Monday, 22 February, 2016
    Brexit
    Big business backs Cameron’s push to keep Britain in the EU

    Bosses of about half of 100 largest companies to sign letter of support for In campaign

  • Friday, 19 February, 2016
    UK politics & policy
    National Archives: Thatcher aide played key role in Westland row

    Longstanding adviser Charles Powell leaked damaging information to undermine Michael Heseltine

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