20 JUNE 1970, Page 7

From the hustings

`Mr Heath will no doubt go on fighting as bravely as he can—but under the gaze of the increasingly cold eyes of many of his alleged colleagues' (Mr Roy Jenkins)

'I do not pay any attention to the polls.' (Mr lain Macleod)

The election is going to be a pretty close- run thing.' (Mr John Boyd-Carpenter) 'Political movements based on the persecu- tion of minorities are not new in history. They have always led to the destruction of the nation which espoused them. We want no skinhead Mussolinis here.' (Mr Denis Healey)