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Misleading Margin. The biggest battle came with the Commons debate on the plan, which the Prime Minister had announced the week before, to freeze prices, wages and dividends while drastically squeezing inflation out of the economy by cutting government spending and raising taxes. Conservative Leader Ted Heath led a bitter, sometimes brilliant attack in Commons on Wilson's handling of the economic crisis. The government survived the no-confidence motion by a 79-vote margin...
Conservative Leader Ted Heath introduced a no-confidence motion against Wilson for his handling of the crisis. Wilson had little to fear from the vote. Still, the crisis had changed Wilson's standing in his party and in Britain. For the first time in his 21 months in office, his skills as a political leader were being seriously questioned. "The measures marked the end of an era," said London's leftist New Statesman. "His life as a political superman is over...
...months preceding the March 1966, election Heath became more effective and the Tories were given a slim chance to topple the Labour government. But the election demonstrated that Heath's leadership was of little help at the polls. The Wilson government was returned with a majority of over 100 members in the House of Commons...
Prior to his accession to party leadership, Heath was President of the Board of Trade. He also was Britain's top negotiator when the MacMillan government attempted to gain entrance into the Common Market. Britain's application was vetoed in January, 1963, by French President Charles De Gaulle in what was described as the "humiliation of Brussels...
...Heath will succeed Walter W. Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as Godkin Lecturer. At Harvard last March, Heller call- ed on President Johnson to raise taxes to stave off inflation. In his last lecture, the University of Minnesota professor outlined for the first time his much-discussed plan to disburse a small percentage of federal income tax revenues to the states