Conservative students go wild as Edward Heath is dumped as patron – archive, 2 April 1985
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2 April 1985: Closing the debate, conference was urged to ‘remove this scurrilous little man’
The annual conference of the Federation of Conservative Students yesterday voted by an overwhelming majority amid scenes of near chaos to remove the former Conservative prime minister, Mr Edward Heath, as life patron.
The motion’s backers, led by Mr Douglas Smith of the far-right libertarian faction, claimed that Mr Heath was no longer a “suitable person” to hold the office. Continue reading...
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