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Tribute on Monday, 18 July 2005, in the House of Commons.


Sir Edward Heath KG MBE

Tributes paid to Edward Heath KG MBE following his death on 17 July 2005.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
436 c1074-90 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Simon Hughes | 436 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I just want to offer a very brief postscript to the excellent tributes from the Prime Minister, my r...
Tony Blair | 436 c1074-6 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House do now adjourn. Sir Edward Heath died yesterday after a long illness...
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Stuart Bell | 436 c1079-80 (Link to this contribution) I may be the only Member of the House who shook Ted Heath’s hand after the election of 1970. I had f...
Derek Conway | 436 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) It is daunting to follow so many eloquent tributes to Sir Edward Heath, but not half as daunting as ...
Robert Key | 436 c1081-3 (Link to this contribution) My late constituent, Sir Edward Heath, was a very great Englishman. When, after just one year in thi...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 436 c1083 (Link to this contribution) Ted Heath had a huge influence on my personal life of which I do not think that he was ever aware in...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 436 c1076-8 (Link to this contribution) I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute on behalf of Conservative Members to the memory of Sir E...
Charles Kennedy | 436 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) Despite the sadness of the occasion, I think that Sir Edward would want the House, as both the Prime...
Alan Williams | 436 c1085 (Link to this contribution) In the 1960s, when I came to the House not knowing Edward Heath at all well, I found a man who was e...
Lord Deben | 436 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that I owe more to Ted Heath than anyone else in the House because he did for me what he was...
Jeffrey M Donaldson | 436 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) Reference has been made to the contribution that Sir Edward made in Northern Ireland. During his tim...
Lord Beith | 436 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) The Father of the House, the right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams), spoke of the period...
Hywel Williams | 436 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I would like to associate my party, Plaid Cymru, and the Scottish National party with the many tribu...
Speaker | 436 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Before I put the Question, I would like to pay my own tribute to Sir Edward. As Father of the House,...
Peter Luff | 436 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) I certainly wish to associate myself with all the generous tributes given by right hon. and hon. Mem...
Richard Ottaway | 436 c1090 (Link to this contribution) As a yachtsman, I am embarrassed to say that my membership of the Tory party owes as much to Sir Edw...
Ian Taylor | 436 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) Like my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), I met Ted Heath early on in ...
Subjects
Death Former prime ministers Heath, Edward
Link
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