I'd love to see Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield interviewing them myself.I'd like to see Adam Boulton or Kay Burley try picking on one of them!
I'd love to see Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield interviewing them myself.I'd like to see Adam Boulton or Kay Burley try picking on one of them!
Not really. Heath always did very poorly in matchups with Wilson in terms of person popularity; one of them generally lost elections, the other generally won them. Wilson was avuncular; Heath was, well, Ted Heath. Although Labour was in the pits for most of the '66-'70 period in the polls, by the election they'd recovered and most people expected Labour to win with a small majority. Heath won in spite of himself.Heath would be very much not 'the man' going into a TV debate.
V-J said:So a lot would depend upon his performance. Presumably Wilson would have the good sense to sidestep invoking Powell directly to attack the Tories; although he could attempt to tie him into a 'Selsdon Man' image and try to brand the Tories as split. Although if the moderator asks about Powell, clearly Heath would have to denounce him in some form or other. That would not really help the Tories.
As Lord Roem suggested on the other thread, I direct you to Andrew Marr's 'History of Modern Britain' on Youtube (episode 3, part 5). If Ted Heath wasn't a truly sucessful meretricious* individual at that time then Marr has been fooled into believing otherwise.
Is there opinion polling from the late sixties measuring the popular support of both as leaders?
Heath won the first of the three confrontations, you know.
No, because these were privately arranged debates on a personal level between Cameron and Brown and Sky/ITV/BBC, Ofcom had no precedent or, barring obvious things like nudity (!), authority over the events. It was indeed Cameron's insistence that got Clegg into the debates (and possibly cost him an overall majority, if you take into account the fact the Lib Dems may have done even worse if Clegg hadn't done as well as he did).
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what your point is here.
V-J said:Yep. I can dig it out if you wish.
V-J said:No, he didn't. (There were four of them)