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(1) Macmillan cabinet
- The Fifth Marquis
of Salisbury
- v right wing. Resigned after 3 months as
he thought the government policy on
imperial (empire) policy was too liberal
- Salisbury was known as a hardline imperialist. In 1952,
as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.
- Rab Butler
- Home Secretary –
Mr. consensus
- Edward Heath
- – Chief Whip 1955,1959
- He was first elected to
Parliament in 1950 for Bexley
- Heath studied at Oxford University
- Entering the Cabinet as
Minister of Labour in 1959
- Enoch Powell
- Number 2 in the Treasury
- was a British politician, classical
scholar, linguist and poet
- Conservative Member of
Parliament (MP) (1950–74),
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP
- Wrote "rivers of blood speech" 1968
- Iain Macleod
- Minister for Labour and
then Colonial Secretary
- Iain Macleod was born at
Clifford House, Skipton,
Yorkshire,
- Here he presided over considerable
decolonisation, seeing Nigeria, British Somaliland,
Tanganyika, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and British
Cameroon become independent, and in Kenya
ending the state of emergency and freeing
Kenyatta.
- Interesting facts
- No women in the cabinet
- 6 of the cabinet went to Eton. Powell and
Heath both grammar school educated – the
others went to private school
- 1958 - 35 out of 95 MPs were related to
Macmillan through marriage. 7 of the 19 in the
cabinet were also related to him in this way.
- Centist/consenal cabinet
- On the surface did not look
out of place in the 18th centry
- Avided confrontation
- conscience of empire
- Devoted to full employment and
accepted of the wealfare state
- Harold Macmillan
- PM
- Hides a lonely, damaged
individual who suffered much
pain both physical and mental
- The image of the upper-class aristocracy concealed a
bookish interacted, well versed in modern economic and
genuinely radical in his desire to improve life for all