WI: Heath doesn't kick Powell out?

What if after RoB instead of kicking Powell out of the cabinet Edward Heath decides to keep Powell due to the public support the people had for Powell?
 
Effectively the rest of the shadow cabinet made it clear it was them or Powell. Effectively it was a choice between kicking out Powell or Heath's leadership collapsing.

As such, not a difficult choice. Even if Heath himself had been minded to keep Powell, which he wasn't.
 
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