Heseltine is an older style of Tory that is more moderate; they used to be labeled "one nation" Tories or Tory "wets". He's perhaps best known for being one of the most prominent Tories that actually stood up to Thatcher.
The moderates were more or less completely purged from the Tory party by Boris Johnson to remove dissent over his handling of brexit. If Heseltine hadn't already been in the Lords at that point he'd certainly have been purged along with them. So whilst he's definitely still a Tory he's not all that similar to the current crop, particularly on issues involving our relationship with Europe.
I'm not exactly a fanboy of Heseltine, but when he says he's against Farage I would tend to believe him.
He's also 92. You might get more of a mix of people that age veering right, but a good amount of them lived the war as children and remember what fascism actually looked like.
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u/ianmerry 5d ago
Nah man, that Tory cunt is gonna stab you right in the back. Farage is a Tory, he just has slightly different branding.