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With Britain's general election only a fortnight away, the major polls last week gave Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party an unprecedented lead-and increased the pressure on the Conservatives to find some issue with which to turn the tide. But Tory Leader Ted Heath was having a tough time...
...seemed that he might have found an issue in the Common Market. A French official in London allowed as how France would now welcome Britain into the Common Market, provided, of course, that Britain met the Six's conditions. It was hardly anything new, but it gave Heath an opening. "If I were Prime Minister," he thundered at a hurriedly called press conference, "I would send my Foreign Secretary to the Continent at once to explore this new opportunity." He then demanded to know what was being done by Wilson, who has never been very enthusiastic about British membership...
...moment, Labour is talking not of a substantial majority but of obliterating the Tories and even of unseating Edward Heath...
...Conservatives and to give Wilson a majority of 167. The National Opinion Poll is showing a swing to Labour of five and a quarter per cent, enough to give Labour a majority over the Conservatives of around 190. If the swing is 4.3 per cent or more, Heath will lose his own constituency of Bexley...
...balance Wilson seems in an excellent position to escape from the restrictions imposed by his present margin in Parliament. While Labour restrains the traditional support of the working class, and of all voters in the 35 to 49 age group, it may be some consolation to Heath that the Conservatives still lead in gaining the allegiance of women...