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...delegation; later he became President of the Board of Trade, a Cabinet-level post. When Sir Alec Douglas-Home stepped aside as leader of the Opposition after his 1964 loss to Harold Wilson, Heath saw his opportunity. "Ted's camp left nothing to chance," said one Tory. "Everybody was canvassed???everybody. Nothing was left undone. They treated it like a war and they were determined to win." At the party conference in 1965, Heath was chosen leader in order to bolster the Tories' strength against Wilson's Laborites...
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