From Acorns to Oaks : An Urgent Agenda to Rebuild Britain

Author(s): Heseltine, Michael
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 30/01/2025,
Pagination: 432 pages, 16pp plates,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781785909801,
Description:

When MichaelHeseltine wrote his acclaimed autobiography, Life in the Jungle, heassumed his political career was over. He returned to Haymarket, his publishingbusiness, and intended to explore more of the world and pursue his passions outsidepolitics.

Hisassumption was wrong. David Cameron called him, tentatively at first butgradually with increased responsibility, back to the corridors of power.

This secondmemoir is a potpourri of reminiscences about Heseltine’s life and previouslyunexplored aspects of his stellar political career. But the main reason for Heseltinetaking up his pen again has been to look back on the fundamental changes he wasable to mastermind while in government and to set out the policies that areurgently needed to unite the country by driving growth, increasing prosperityand restoring hope. He combines this with new revelations about the seismicWestland scandal, the establishment cover-up that caused him to resign fromMargaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, and a damning assessment of what he considers thegrievous act of self-harm inflicted on Britain by Brexit.

Thisextraordinary new memoir offers an urgent agenda to rebuild Britain from one ofour last great statesmen, who has been at the forefront of business andpolitics for the past sixty years.