Ironically enough, "
The Grocer" was actually the political
nickname of
Margaret Thatcher's worst enemy in the
House of Commons, her predecessor as leader of the Conservative Party, one
Edward Heath, MBE, MP.
The epithet was awarded by Enoch Powell who described Heath's ambitions as leading him to behave "like some shoddy grocer" who would sell his own country - with the UK joining the then European Economic Community - in order to increase his own political power.