What is Michael Heseltine?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Lord Heseltine | birthname = | honorific-suffix = | image = Lord Heseltine2.jpg | caption = Heseltine, photographed in 2013 | office = [[Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] | primeminister = [[John Major]] | term_start = 20 July 1995 | term_end = 2 May 1997 | predecessor = [[Geoffrey Howe]] {{small|(1990){{Ref label|aaa|a}}}} | successor = [[John Prescott]]| | honorific_suffix = [[CH]] [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] }} '''Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine''', '''Baron Heseltine''' <small>[[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]] [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small> (born 21 March 1933) is a [[British people|British]] [[politician]] and businessman. He was a [[Member of Parliament]] from 1966 to 2001 as a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. He was born in [[Swansea]], [[Wales]] and studied at the [[University of Oxford]]. He was briefly [[conscription|conscripted]] into the army, before becoming a self-made [[millionaire]] in the 1960s. At the 1966 General Election, Heseltine became the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Tavistock in [[Devon]]. From 1970 to 1974, he was a junior minister in the government of [[Edward Heath]]. From 1979 to 1983, he was in the cabinet of [[Margaret Thatcher]] as Secretary of State for the Environment. He was Defence Secretary from 1983 to 1986, but resigned in 1986 and became a backbencher. As a backbencher, Heseltine became very critical of Thatcher's government and refused to support the Poll Tax in 1989. In November 1990, Heseltine challenged Thatcher for Conservative Party leadership and this led to Thatcher resigning, but Heseltine did not get to become party leader. New Conservative Prime Minister [[John Major]] made Heseltine Secretary of State for the Environment (1990-1992), President of the Board of Trade (1992-1995) and Deputy Prime Minister (1995-1997). In 2001, Heseltine stood down as an MP and entered the House of Lord