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Piers Morgan Uncensored hosted by Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott takes a dramatic turn as the pair are joined by former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Michael Heseltine to debate whether the Government should accept that Brexit has failed.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
Emily Maitlis speaks to former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine about the future of the Conservative party and Brexit.
The Tory peer was scathing in his criticism of the Foreign Secretary.
After coronavirus, the UK government can’t afford to play Russian roulette with the EU over a Brexit trade deal - Michael Heseltine
27/06/2020
The battle for foreign investment is not a game conducted on public school playing fields. It is ruthlessly fought by governments armed with every trick in the book.
Battle for UK to remain in the EU is now lost and rejoining won't be prospect for 20 years, admits Lord Heseltine
13/12/2019
Battle under way over shape of UK's future relationship with the remaining European Union.
Lord Heseltine, who wrote a report called Empowering English Cities in 2019, told Econ Film’s CoronaNomics show that the picture is “infinitely depressing”.
Boris Johnson plotting scheme to render EU ‘no longer legal’ in desperate bid to escape Brexit trap
08/09/2019
Boris Johnson is threatening to sabotage the EU to make it cave in on a Brexit deal – or reject MPs’ plan to stop the UK crashing out of the bloc.
Boris Johnson's plan to 'squat' in Downing Street crosses the 'threshold of insanity', claims Heseltine [3 mins]
07/10/2019
Lord Heseltine has claimed that Boris Johnson has crossed 'the threshold of insanity' by vowing to 'squat' in Downing Street even if he is unseated by MPs. / According to the Sunday Times, Johnson will dare the Queen to sack him rather than resign as prime minister in an attempt to ensure Brexit happens on October 31st.
Boris Johnson’s removal from Downing Street would be an opportunity to reconsider Brexit, Conservative grandee Michael Heseltine has said.
Brexit march: Former Conservative deputy prime minister calls Theresa May’s No10 speech an ‘affront to parliamentary democracy’
23/03/2019
‘I may be naive, but if something is wrong, I look first for the person in charge,’ Lord Heseltine told thousands of protestors in central London.
Brexit was bound to fail and has - we must now return to the centre of Europe, Lord Heseltine says
18/06/2023
Lord Heseltine said it is time to stop ‘hiding from the damage’ caused by Brexit. / Lord Heseltine has called for Britain to “recreate our position at the centre of Europe” after the failure of Brexit.
Lord Heseltine delivered the 2018 Hadyn Ellis Lecture at Cardiff University on the 28th November 2018. His subject? What else but Brexit, which he explores in his own inimitable style.
"Those of a certain age who voted 70:30 to leave is rapidly being replaced by a younger generation who voted 70:30 to stay." / Former deputy PM Lord Michael Heseltine will warn politicians that Britain’s youth will “never forgive us” unless they are offered the chance to reverse Brexit. / “May our opponents never be forgiven for their allegations that it is us who are letting Britain down.”
“Car crash!” exclaimed managing director Andrew Varga, whose Brexit progress I have been following since the referendum. News of the latest Brexit U-turn landed on him on Tuesday out of the blue. All his years of preparation for a new UK product safety mark, all his thousands of pounds wasted, all the uncountable hours and effort were rendered pointless, at a stroke.
The former deputy leader of the Conservatives insists that despite the UK leaving the EU, he will push for Britain to rejoin.
EU Debate | Lord Michael Heseltine
23/03/2019
The Motion: This House Believes the United Kingdom Should Leave the European Union. Lord Michael Heseltine closes the case for the Opposition, as the final speaker of eight in the debate. The motion was defeated.
European elections 2019: Michael Heseltine says he won’t ‘betray my country’ by voting Tory if candidate is a Brexiteer
08/05/2019
'Do I betray my country or my party? That becomes a simple choice with a simple answer'. / Former Deputy Prime Minister and Tory peer Michael Heseltine said he will not vote for his party’s candidate in European elections if they are a Brexiteer.
Tories are ‘myopically focused on forcing through biggest act of economic self-harm ever undertaken by a democratic government’, he says. / Tory grandee Michael Heseltine has said he will not be supporting the Conservatives in the European election, and will instead vote Liberal Democrat.
When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth.
Five years on from Brexit referendum we still define ourselves by how we voted, says Leeds academic Stephen Coleman
26/06/2021
Five years on from the Brexit referendum people are still more likely to define themselves by which side they backed in 2016 rather than their party political allegiances, according to a Yorkshire academic.
Britain's decision to leave the EU has seriously undermined the peace efforts in Europe, a former Tory politician has claimed.
Two years since Britain left the EU, Brexit is still very much at the top of the news agenda with lorry queues lengthening at Dover as exporting firms struggle with red tape.
Michael Heseltine has warned the Conservative leadership candidates that they will never win a general election by following the “poisonous politics of Nigel Farage”, as he said the prospect of 100,000 Tory members choosing the next prime minister filled him with dread.