Heath remained an MP until 2001, and was generally perceived as being firmly on the left of the Conservative Party. (The maverick Labour politician [[Tony Benn]] claims that Heath once told him that he, Heath, was politically to the left of Labour's [[Tony Blair]].) He died in 2005. | Heath remained an MP until 2001, and was generally perceived as being firmly on the left of the Conservative Party. (The maverick Labour politician [[Tony Benn]] claims that Heath once told him that he, Heath, was politically to the left of Labour's [[Tony Blair]].) He died in 2005. |