Imagine this:
1975 Willie Whitelaw becomes Tory Leader after Ted Heath resigns. In an attempt to re-solidify the tories after the traumas of 1974 he creates a shadow cabinet of all wings of the party:
Shadow Chancellor-Margaret Thatcher
Shadow Foreign Secretary-Geoffrey Howe
Shadow Home Secretary-Michael Heseltine
Shadow Leader of the Commons-Robert Carr
Shadow Lords Leader and Tory Chairman-Lord Carrington
Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary-Keith Joseph
Shadow Defence Secretary-Airey Neave
Shadow NI Secretary-Francis Pym
Shadow Education Secretary-John Nott
Whitelaw sheds his image as a "duffer" and re-energises the tories but in a far less strident mode than Thatcher did in the OTL.
1975 Willie Whitelaw becomes Tory Leader after Ted Heath resigns. In an attempt to re-solidify the tories after the traumas of 1974 he creates a shadow cabinet of all wings of the party:
Shadow Chancellor-Margaret Thatcher
Shadow Foreign Secretary-Geoffrey Howe
Shadow Home Secretary-Michael Heseltine
Shadow Leader of the Commons-Robert Carr
Shadow Lords Leader and Tory Chairman-Lord Carrington
Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary-Keith Joseph
Shadow Defence Secretary-Airey Neave
Shadow NI Secretary-Francis Pym
Shadow Education Secretary-John Nott
Whitelaw sheds his image as a "duffer" and re-energises the tories but in a far less strident mode than Thatcher did in the OTL.