Michael Heseltine: 'I would have liked to be prime minister'

The Tory grandee on his career, his biggest disappointments – and why he decided to come back and try to help David Cameron sort out the economy Back in the late 80s, when Lord Heseltine's daughters were belles of the Sloaney Oxbridge scene, the politician got used to finding their friends cluttering up his stately home. The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a d...