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Scarcely had Sir Alec resigned than the two camps, one for Heath, one for Maudling, began to form. But for opposite reasons, neither camp did much canvassing in the five days preceding the vote in House of Commons Room 14. That, too, aided the gentlemanly outcome...
...seemed the more seasoned and deserving. He was, moreover, a cut closer to the traditional Tory mold, the preferred of the party's older hands. "He's the kind of decent chap that's so much like us," observed one, contrasting him with the more aggressive Heath. Maudling's camp relaxed, confident that he would win. The pollsters encouraged them: one newspaper survey found Britons preferred Maudling to Heath...
...Heath was the favorite of the party's Young Turks, who hesitated to press his candidacy too hard for fear of seeming "pushy." They knew him as the Tories' chief front-bench fighter against Prime Minister Harold Wilson's finance bill. Tough, computer-quick, he also loomed as the intellectual innovator behind the scenes, having been assigned by Sir Alec to preside over a rethinking of basic Tory policy. Maudling, by contrast, had been nearly invisible as shadow foreign secretary in the Commons, unable to attack Wilson effectively, since Labor's foreign policy is one with...
News at Lunch. In the end, the Young Turks and the advocates of toughness won. On the first ballot, Heath polled 150 votes, Maudling 133, and 15 votes went to a third candidate...
...Heath thus got an overall majority of two but fell 28 short of the 15% winning margin that the rules require. A second ballot was thus in order, but Maudling, reached at lunch with fellow directors of his bank, saw that a clear choice had been made. In the interests of party unity, he telephoned Heath his congratulations and withdrew his own candidacy...