3.2 The Heath Government

Question 1

What was Heath’s background?

Answer 1

Working class background, grammar school, Oxford educated

Question 2

What were his political views?

Answer 2

Liberal and humane
Fought the right wing of the party on race relations, corporal and capital punishment, and policies towards South Africa

Question 3

Why was Heath written off as party leader?

Answer 3

He had a lack of personal touch and absence of public charisma

Question 4

Heath was the first Conservative leader to…

Answer 4

Have been educated at state schools

Question 5

How did many of Heath’s colleagues regard him as?

Answer 5

Too honest for his own good

Question 6

Who was Heath’s man in the Foreign Office?

Answer 6

Douglas-Home

Question 7

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Heath?

Answer 7

Macleod (he died a month later)
Replaced with Barber

Question 8

Who was Minister for Trade and Industry under Heath?

Answer 8

Davies

Question 9

Who was Minister for Education under Heath?

Answer 9

Thatcher

Question 10

What did Heath’s government promise?

Answer 10

A break with interventionist policies

Question 11

What group did Heath want to limit with reforms?

Answer 11

Trade Unions

Question 12

What was Davies’ goal as Minister for Trade and Industry?

Answer 12

Not spending taxpayer money on helping ‘lame duck’ industries

Heath said ‘we utterly reject the philosophy of compulsory wage control’