Labour Research January 2000

Features: Money Matters

Heseltine Haymarket millionaire

Publishing group Haymarket, headed by former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, has cut its support to the Conservative Party (see December 1999 Labour Research, page 11).

However through its dividend payments it keeps Heseltine in the millionaire bracket. In 1998 Heseltine received just over £1.3 million in dividends on his 16.6 million Haymarket shares.