Edward Heath Autograph | Prime Minister

Edward Heath signed 1992 Single Market, Bradbury cover.

Edward Heath was Conservative Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. In 1971, he introduced decimalisation and took the UK into the EEC in 1973. His decision to call a snap election in an attempt to win a mandate to take on the unions backfired after this resulted in a hung parliament -  &was subsequently defeated by Margaret Thatcher in the Conservative leadership election.