If you ask me in politics, too many people live in the past.
Working class people still vote Labour because of the economic positions that Labour and the Tories held half a century ago. Labour and the Tories are practically indistinguishable now on economics.
And then this comment from Heseltine. In his 80s-90s heyday, maybe lurching to the right was a concern for the Tories as they were on the right already. Since then we've seen the Tories inexorably move left, a phenomenon that was accelerated during the Corbyn challenge, so they absolutely need to lurch to the right just to get back on the flipping right.
And the other thing that I don't think people like Heseltine get, in the 80s-90s I'm sure positioning on the political spectrum was the main thing to worry about. But he clearly doesn't understand that we're literally losing our country. Immigration is running at levels of 1.5 million per year gross, illegal immigration is tripling each year. We're being successfully invaded by a hostile religion as we speak and Heseltine thinks preserving the Tories respectability is what's important. Woefully out of touch.