“We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.”

—  Edward Heath

Interviewed in 1982 about Margaret Thatcher's attitude towards him and his government.[citation needed]
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