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Edward Heath

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It is bad because it is a negation of democracy ... Worst of all is the imposition by parliamentary diktat of a change of responsible party in London government. There cannot be any justification for that. It immediately lays the Conservative Party open to the charge of the greatest gerrymandering in the last 150 years of British history.
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Speech opposing the 'paving Bill' preparing for abolition of the Greater London Council, 1984.

 
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