Julian Critchley, a Conservative MP, was at school and later at Oxford with Michael Heseltine. In this biography he takes an affectionate look at the past (parents, girlfriends, ambitions), and discusses his friend's climb up the political ladder. He charts such milestones in Heseltine's career as his successful assault on the presidency of the Oxford Union, his early forays into the business world, his rise to become Minister of the Environment, and his decision to walk out of the Cabinet over the Westland affair. Julian Critchley is author of Westminster Blues.