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Thatcher loyalist who put party first OBITUARY VISCOUNT WHITELAW OF PENRITH
1999
Overview
The irony was that if he had not been so loyal to Edward Heath, Mr Whitelaw rather than Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher might have been the Tory prime minister of the 1980s. When Mr Heath submitted himself for re-election to the leadership in 1975, Mr Whitelaw declined to stand in the first ballot. He entered the second after Mr Heath had withdrawn, but by then Mrs Thatcher was a near-certain winner. The next morning she invited him to be her deputy, and thus the relationship continued: Mr Whitelaw as deputy leader of the opposition and shadow home secretary until 1979, then as home secretary and deputy leader of the Conservative party until 1983, and finally as leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and still deputy leader of the party until he suffered a mild stroke and retired from the government in 1988.
Publisher
The Financial Times Limited
