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Baroness Thatcher tried to seduce Sir Edward Heath, claims new BBC drama
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie May 16, 2008 09:17pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Saturday, May 17, 2008 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The production – Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley – reverses the traditional thinking about their frosty relationship, which is generally thought to be bitterness on the part of Sir Edward for her ousting him as leader of the party in 1975.
The drama suggests that the antagonism may be more to do with frustrated intimate feelings as in one scene the pair are seen at a Tory ball, where they flirt and dance together before going for a walk outside.
He apparently rebuffs her suggestion but later in the show, which is to be shown on BBC4, he is seen playing with a letter which the then-unmarried Margaret sent him and which he sniffs for a trace of her scent.
However, Denis MacShane, the Labour MP who is one of Sir Edward's biographers, refused to accept the suggestion.
He said: "It's delightful but wholly imagined. There is absolutely no evidence that Ted got closer to her than shaking her hand." |
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