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HARDtalk - Michael Heseltine - Deputy Prime Minister, 1995-97

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The coalition government believes it can deliver both sustained economic growth and the deepest cuts in spending since World War II by unleashing the potential of the private sector. Michael Heseltine is the minister who, under the Thatcher governments, led the urban regeneration efforts in the 1980s. Now David Cameron wants him to help bring growth to the UK's poorest places. But how, in this age of austerity?