(1) Macmillan cabinet

The Fifth Marquis of Salisbury
1. v right wing. Resigned after 3 months as he thought the government policy on imperial (empire) policy was too liberal
2. Salisbury was known as a hardline imperialist. In 1952, as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.
Rab Butler
1. Home Secretary – Mr. consensus
Edward Heath
1. – Chief Whip 1955,1959
2. He was first elected to Parliament in 1950 for Bexley
3. Heath studied at Oxford University
4. Entering the Cabinet as Minister of Labour in 1959
Enoch Powell
1. Number 2 in the Treasury
2. was a British politician, classical scholar, linguist and poet
3. Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) (1950–74), Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP
4. Wrote "rivers of blood speech" 1968
Iain Macleod
1. Minister for Labour and then Colonial Secretary
2. Iain Macleod was born at Clifford House, Skipton, Yorkshire,
3. 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
1. No women in the cabinet
2. 6 of the cabinet went to Eton. Powell and Heath both grammar school educated – the others went to private school
3. 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.
4. Centist/consenal cabinet
5. On the surface did not look out of place in the 18th centry
6. Avided confrontation
7. conscience of empire
8. Devoted to full employment and accepted of the wealfare state
Harold Macmillan
1. PM
2. Hides a lonely, damaged individual who suffered much pain both physical and mental
3. 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

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