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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.
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