“Doesn’t that mark the end of the dominance of the establishment of which you have been a part, and Tony Blair and John Major and Ken Clarke?
“Your time is over! That time is over and we move into a different type of Britain.”
In an attempt to shift the conversation onto his social background, Lord Heseltine replied: “Andrew, you must know that without making any great further claims of social background, I don’t come from the establishment.
“My father went to school at Swansea Grammar School.”
Andrew Neil grills Lord Heseltine on urging Britons to vote against Boris Johnson (Image: BBC)
But as Andrew Neil caught his trick, he soon interrupted the former Tory and said: “I wasn’t talking about social backgrounds, Michael Heseltine, I was talking about the people running this country.”
To which Lord Heseltine defensively replied: “Well, I’m sorry about that but I’m talking about the memory therefore of every Prime Minister, Conservative Prime Minister, that I’ve ever worked for.
“And frankly, I am not prepared to shift my integrity because my party has shifted.
“That’s the truth of the matter, and I believe everything I said about the European venture and the opportunity and the prosperity and the security.
“And every Prime Minister I worked for said the same thing, and simply because Nigel Farage has emerged and frightened my party to the right-wing, I’m not going with it.”
Andrew Neil tells Lord Heseltine his time is 'over' if Boris Johnson wins general election (Image: BBC)
The Tory peer told ITV Good Morning Britain in November that the UK is a "European power" that should remain shackled to the Brussels bloc despite the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Challenged on why he is urging Britons for the first time in his life to vote against his own party, Lord Heseltine said: “The overarching issue of our time is British position in the world.
“It is about the strength of our economy and it is about the sort of society we want to be.
“It is about what we hand on to the younger generation.
