Among other things, Mr Reading is a former economic adviser to Ted Heath and ex-Economics Editor for the Economist.
During Thatcher's party leadership she purged her team of moderates who backed previous leaders like Ted Heath as well as other doubters.
More creditably, he correctly predicted that the boom generated by the Conservative government under Ted Heath in the 1970s would end in tears.
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Two years after Saltley Gate, Ted Heath was forced by another miners' strike to go to the country and ask electors who ruled Britain.
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Famous for his impressions of Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, Yarwood struggled to maintain his creative momentum after the election of Margaret Thatcher.
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There was a time when a contribution from Tony Benn or Ted Heath would have sent MPs and journalists running into the chamber to listen.
Our deft handling of a question about the politician who recently celebrated 50 years at the House of Commons (it was Ted Heath) convinced the voters.
She inherited a party that contained supporters of her predecessor Ted Heath, labelled by her as "wets", who opposed her monetarist policies and cuts to public spending.
When, in 1965, the party needed a leader to take on Labour's Harold Wilson, presented as a thrusting technocrat, capable Ted Heath won in a three-cornered election.
"We didn't do that for Ted Heath or (former Labour prime minister) Jim Callaghan - we could have dealt with it quite easily and respectfully next week in an hour set aside for it, " he said.
The policy had been pioneered by Lady Thatcher's predecessor as Tory leader, Ted Heath, in the early 1970s, although local councils have had the right to sell off their council housing stock, with ministerial approval, since 1936.
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