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Inspired by the recent Heath Night on BBC Parliament, I've been wondering what might have happened had Ted Heath stuck to his "Selsdon Park manifesto".

The 1970 Conservative Party manifesto laid down plans for lowering taxes, cutting government spending, reforming industrial relations, promoting free enterprise and stopping any further nationalisations of industry. These promises were reneged on pretty quickly.

But, what if they hadn't been so quickly discarded? What if Iain Macleod lived and persuaded Heath to keep to the course the manifesto had set instead of making constant u-turns?
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