Tributes poured in today for Sir Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister who died last night.
Sir Edward took Britain into Europe, but analysts say that his limited political achievements at home were brutally upstaged by those of his successor as Tory leader, Margaret Thatcher.
Sir Edward, who celebrated his 89th birthday earlier this month, was remembered as a distant, often brusque, individual, but a man of complete integrity with a passion not just for politics but for music and the sport of sailing.
Among those to pay tribute to Sir Edward, who occupied No 10 Downing Street for three and a half years between 1970 and 1974, were the Queen, Tony Blair and Michael Howard, the current Tory leader.
But the tribute that appeared