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In the 11 months between resigning as prime minister on 4 March 1974 and standing down as leader of the Conservative Party on 4 February 1975, Edward Heath was the political equivalent of those cartoon characters who run off the edge of a cliff but do not realise there is nothing between their feet and the ground except a thousand feet of thin air. Although he was determined to carry on, he was not going to be able to defy the laws of gravity and escape the fate of other unsuccessful premiers and party leaders.
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Philip Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 132
John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), pp. 576–7
Harold Wilson, A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1977), pp. 187–8
Bernard Donoughue, The Heat of the Kitchen (London: Politico’s, 2003), p. 178
Paul Routledge, Wilson (London: Haus Publishing, 2006), pp. 3–5
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Theakston, K. (2010). Heath to Callaghan. In: After Number 10. Understanding Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281387_8
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