The Early Seventies in British politics is a period that starts with the Heath Ministry of 1970, through to the 1974 General Election that lost Edward Heath and the Conservatives the Government. It was the period in which the parties were radicalising, with the formerly dominant One Nation Conservatism whithering away in the Conservative Party and the Labour party moving to the left in order to appease the increasingly militant trade unions. The Liberals were reduced to a group of MPs from the Celtic Fringes.